His left hand is under mine head, and his right hand doth embrace me.

[a]I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor waken my love, until she please.

[b]It is the voice of my well-beloved: behold, he cometh leaping by the mountains, and skipping by the hills.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 2:7 Christ chargeth them which have to do in the Church as it were by a solemn oath, that they trouble not the quietness thereof.
  2. Song of Solomon 2:8 This is spoken of Christ, who took upon his our nature to come to help his Church.

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