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Song of Solomon 2:7-9
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7 Women of Jerusalem, promise me by the gazelles and wild deer,
    don’t awaken love,
    don’t arouse love, until I am ready.[a]

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8 I hear my lover’s voice.
    Here it comes, jumping over the mountains,
    skipping over the hills.
9 My lover is like a gazelle
    or a young deer.
Look at him standing behind our wall,
    staring out the window,
    looking through the lattice.[b]

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  1. Song of Solomon 2:7 until I am ready Literally, “until it desires.”
  2. Song of Solomon 2:9 lattice A wooden screen over a window.
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Song of Songs 2:7-9
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7 Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you(A)
    by the gazelles and by the does of the field:
Do not arouse or awaken love
    until it so desires.(B)

8 Listen! My beloved!
    Look! Here he comes,
leaping across the mountains,
    bounding over the hills.(C)
9 My beloved is like a gazelle(D) or a young stag.(E)
    Look! There he stands behind our wall,
gazing through the windows,
    peering through the lattice.

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