Song of Songs 2:5-7

Christian Standard Bible

⁵Sustain me with raisins;
refresh me with apricots,^[a]
for I am lovesick.^(A)
⁶May his left hand be under my head,
and his right arm embrace me.^(B)
⁷Young 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.^[b]^(C)

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2:5 Or apples
2:7 Lit until it pleases

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