Song of Solomon 3:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵ I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or the wild does: do not stir up or awaken love until it is ready!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or by the hinds of the field that you stir not up nor awaken love until it pleases.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ 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.

Common English Bible

⁵ I place you under oath, daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or the wild deer: don’t rouse, don’t arouse love until it desires.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ Groom to Chorus: I bind you by oath, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the does and the stags of the open field, not to disturb or awaken the beloved, until she wills.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes and the harts of the fields, that you stir not up, nor awake my beloved, till she please.

Song of Solomon 3:5 Cross References

Song of Solomon 1:5

I am black and beautiful, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.

Song of Solomon 2:6

O that his left hand were under my head and that his right hand embraced me!

Song of Solomon 2:7

I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or the wild does: do not stir up or awaken love until it is ready!

Song of Solomon 2:9

My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look, there he stands behind our wall, gazing in at the windows, looking through the lattice.

Song of Solomon 5:8

I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, tell him this: I am faint with love.

Song of Solomon 8:4

I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, do not stir up or awaken love until it is ready!

Micah 4:8

And you, O tower of the flock, hill of daughter Zion, to you it shall come, the former dominion shall come, the sovereignty of daughter Jerusalem.