Song of Solomon 2:7-9

New Living Translation

⁷ Promise me, O women of Jerusalem,
    by the gazelles and wild deer,
    not to awaken love until the time is right.^[a]

⁸ Ah, I hear my lover coming!
    He is leaping over the mountains,
    bounding over the hills.
⁹ My lover is like a swift gazelle
    or a young stag.
Look, there he is behind the wall,
    looking through the window,
    peering into the room.