◄ Songs 8:4 ►
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Good News Translation
Promise me, women of Jerusalem, that you will not interrupt our love.

New Revised Standard Version
I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, do not stir up or awaken love until it is ready!

Contemporary English Version
Young women of Jerusalem, promise me never to awaken love before it is ready.

New American Bible
I adjure you, Daughters of Jerusalem, do not awaken or stir up love until it is ready!

Douay-Rheims Bible
I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you stir not up, nor awake my love till she please.

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I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you stir not up, nor awake my love till she please.

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Songs 2:7 I adjure you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and the harts of the field, that you stir not up, nor make the beloved to awake, till she please.

Songs 3:5 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.

that ye stir not up, nor awake.

Context
Longing for Her Beloved
…3His left hand under my head, and his right hand shall embrace me. 4I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you stir not up, nor awake my love till she please.5Who is this that cometh up from the desert, flowing with delights, leaning upon her beloved? Under the apple tree I raised thee up: there thy mother was corrupted, there she was defloured that bore thee.…
Cross References
Songs 1:5
Do not consider me that I am brown, because the sun hath altered my colour: the sons of my mother have fought against me, they have made me the keeper in the vineyards: my vineyard I have not kept.

Songs 2:7
I adjure you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and the harts of the field, that you stir not up, nor make the beloved to awake, till she please.

Songs 3:5
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.

Songs 8:3
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