Song of Solomon 2:4-16

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.

¹⁰ My lover said to me,
    “Rise up, my darling!
    Come away with me, my fair one!
¹¹ Look, the winter is past,
    and the rains are over and gone.
¹² The flowers are springing up,
    the season of singing birds^[b] has come,
    and the cooing of turtledoves fills the air.
¹³ The fig trees are forming young fruit,
    and the fragrant grapevines are blossoming.
Rise up, my darling!
    Come away with me, my fair one!”