Sustain me with raisins;
refresh me with apricots,[a]
for I am lovesick.(A)
His left hand is under my head,
and his right arm embraces me.[b](B)
Young women of Jerusalem, I charge you
by the gazelles and the wild does of the field:
do not stir up or awaken love
until the appropriate time.[c](C)

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 2:5 Or apples
  2. Song of Solomon 2:6 Or Let his left hand be under . . . and his right arm embrace me
  3. Song of Solomon 2:7 Lit until it pleases

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