Promise me, O women of Jerusalem, by the gazelles and wild deer, not to awaken love until the time is right.

耶路撒冷的众女子啊，我指着羚羊或田野的母鹿嘱咐你们：不要惊动、不要叫醒我所亲爱的，等他自己情愿。

耶路撒冷的女子啊，我指着羚羊或田野的母鹿嘱咐你们，不要唤醒，不要挑动爱情，等它自发。

耶路撒冷的女子啊，我指着羚羊或田野的母鹿嘱咐你们，不要唤醒，不要挑动爱情，等它自发。

耶路撒冷的少女啊！我指着羚羊和田野的母鹿吩咐你们，不要叫醒或惊动爱情，等它自发吧。

耶路撒冷的众女子啊！我指着田野的羚羊、母鹿恳求你们，不要激动，不要挑动爱情，等它自发吧。

耶路撒冷的眾女子啊，我指着羚羊或田野的母鹿囑咐你們：不要驚動、不要叫醒我所親愛的，等他自己情願。

耶路撒冷的女子啊，我指着羚羊或田野的母鹿囑咐你們，不要喚醒，不要挑動愛情，等它自發。

耶路撒冷的女子啊，我指着羚羊或田野的母鹿囑咐你們，不要喚醒，不要挑動愛情，等它自發。

耶路撒冷的少女啊！我指著羚羊和田野的母鹿吩咐你們，不要叫醒或驚動愛情，等它自發吧。

耶路撒冷的眾女子啊！我指著田野的羚羊、母鹿懇求你們，不要激動，不要挑動愛情，等它自發吧。

耶路撒冷的女子啊，我誓囑你們，我指着瞪羚羊或田野的母鹿囑咐你們別激動愛心，別挑起愛情，等它隨意自發吧。

耶路撒冷諸女歟、我以麞及野鹿囑爾、勿挑撥愛情、待其自發、

維被麀鹿、遊於田間、我指之而誓、耶路撒冷女乎、維我良人、我所眷愛、酣寢之時、爾勿驚之、待其自寤。○

耶路撒冷眾女乎、我欲爾指牝獐與田間麀鹿而誓、勿驚勿醒我所愛者、待其自願、勿驚勿醒我所愛者待其自願或作勿激動愛情待其自發

Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you by the gazelles and by the does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires.

Women of Jerusalem, make me a promise. Let the antelopes and the does serve as witnesses. Don’t stir up love. Don’t wake it up until it’s ready.

I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or the does of the field, that you not stir up or awaken love until it pleases.

Young women of Jerusalem, I charge you by the gazelles and the wild does of the field, do not stir up or awaken love until the appropriate time.

“ Swear to me, you daughters of Jerusalem, By the gazelles or by the does of the field, That you will not disturb or awaken my love Until she pleases.”

I 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.

I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, By the roes, or by the hinds of the field, That ye stir not up, nor awake my love, Until he please.

Young women of Jerusalem, I charge you by the gazelles and the wild does of the field: do not stir up or awaken love until the appropriate time.

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.

I adjure you, O maidens of Jerusalem, by the gazelles and by the young does of the open fields: Do not awaken or arouse love until it pleases!

I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires.

Promise me, O women of Jerusalem, by the gazelles and wild deer, not to awaken love until the time is right.

Promise me, O women of Jerusalem, not to awaken love until the time is right.

I am dark but beautiful, O women of Jerusalem— dark as the tents of Kedar, dark as the curtains of Solomon’s tents.

Make this promise, O women of Jerusalem— If you find my lover, tell him I am weak with love.Why is your lover better than all others, O woman of rare beauty? What makes your lover so special that we must promise this?

She is a loving deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts satisfy you always. May you always be captivated by her love.

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.

For wives, this means submit to your husbands as to the Lord.For a husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of his body, the church.As the church submits to Christ, so you wives should submit to your husbands in everything.For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for herto make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God’s word.He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault.In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as they love their own bodies. For a man who loves his wife actually shows love for himself.No one hates his own body but feeds and cares for it, just as Christ cares for the church.And we are members of his body.As the Scriptures say,“ A man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.”This is a great mystery, but it is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one.So again I say, each man must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

But Jesus remained silent. Then the high priest said to him,“ I demand in the name of the living God— tell us if you are the Messiah, the Son of God.”

His mouth is sweetness itself; he is desirable in every way. Such, O women of Jerusalem, is my lover, my friend.