Deliver yourself like a gazelle from a snare, and like a bird from the trap of the fowler.
In the Lord I have taken shelter. How can you say to me, “Flee to a mountain like a bird!
We escaped with our lives, like a bird from a hunter’s snare. The snare broke, and we escaped.
he will certainly rescue you from the snare of the hunter and from the destructive plague.
Surely it is futile to spread a net in plain sight of any bird,
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!
My lover is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look! There he stands behind our wall, gazing through the window, peering through the lattice.