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Make a solemn pledge, daughters of Jerusalem,
        by the gazelles or the wild deer:
Don’t rouse, don’t arouse love
        until it desires.

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(A)I [a]charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
By the gazelles or by the does of the field,
Do not stir up nor awaken love
Until it pleases.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 2:7 adjure

I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.

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I (A)adjure you,[a] O (B)daughters of Jerusalem,
    by (C)the gazelles or the does of the field,
that you not stir up or awaken love
    until it pleases.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 2:7 That is, I put you on oath; so throughout the Song