Song of Songs 2:6-8
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
6 (A)His left hand is under my head
and his right arm embraces me.
7 (B)I adjure you, Daughters of Jerusalem,[a]
by the gazelles and the does of the field,
Do not awaken, or stir up love
until it is ready.
Her Lover’s Visit Remembered
8 W The sound of my lover! here he comes[b]
springing across the mountains,
leaping across the hills.
Footnotes
- 2:7 Cf. 3:5; 5:8; 8:4. By the gazelles and the does: perhaps a mitigated invocation of the divinity based on the assonance in Hebrew of the names of these animals with terms for God.
- 2:8–13 In this sudden change of scene, the woman describes a rendezvous and pictures her lover hastening toward her dwelling until his voice is heard calling her to him.
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