⁶ His ^(A)left hand is under my head,
    and his right hand ^(B)embraces me!
⁷ I ^(C)adjure you,^[a] O ^(D)daughters of Jerusalem,
    by ^(E)the gazelles or the does of the field,
that you not stir up or awaken love
    until it pleases.

⁴ Scarcely had I passed them
    when I found ^(A)him whom my soul loves.
I ^(B)held him, and would not let him go
    until I had ^(C)brought him into my mother's house,
    and into the chamber of ^(D)her who conceived me.
^5 (E)I adjure you, ^(F)O daughters of Jerusalem,
    ^(G)by the gazelles or the does of the field,
that you not stir up or awaken love
    until it pleases.

^3 (A)His left hand is under my head,
    and his right hand embraces me!
⁴ I ^(B)adjure you, O ^(C)daughters of Jerusalem,
    ^(D)that you not stir up or awaken love
    until it pleases.