Song of Solomon 3:5

I have charged you, O daughters of Jerusalem, 1 By the powers and by the virtues of the field, 1 That ye rouse not nor awake my love, until he please. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

4It was as a little while after I parted from them, 1 That I found him whom my soul loves: 1 I held him, and did not let him go, 1 Until I brought him into my mother’s house, 1 And into the chamber of her that conceived me. 1

6Who is this that comes up from the wilderness 1 As pillars of smoke, 1 Perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, 1 With all powders of the perfumer? 1

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Cross References

Song of Solomon 2:6His left hand shall be under my head, 1 And his right hand shall embrace me. 1

Song of Solomon 8:4I have charged you, ye daughters of Jerusalem, 1 By the virtues of the field, 1 That ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please. 1

Matthew Henry on Song of Solomon 3:2-6

The Love of the Church to Christ. 1 By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. 2 I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. 3 The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth? 4 It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him… Read the whole commentary →

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