✦ Song of Solomon 2:7 Old Testament
O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you by the gazelles and does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until the time is right.
✦ Song of Solomon 2:8 Old Testament
Listen! My beloved approaches. Look! Here he comes, leaping across the mountains, bounding over the hills.
✦ Song of Solomon 2:9 Old Testament
My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look, he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, peering through the lattice.
✦ Song of Solomon 2:10 Old Testament
My beloved calls to me, “Arise, my darling. Come away with me, my beautiful one.
✦ Song of Solomon 2:14 Old Testament
O my dove in the clefts of the rock, in the crevices of the cliff, let me see your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your countenance is lovely.
✦ Song of Solomon 2:16 Old Testament
My beloved is mine and I am his; he pastures his flock among the lilies.
✦ Song of Solomon 2:17 Old Testament
Before the day breaks and shadows flee, turn, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of Bether.
✦ Song of Solomon 3:1 Old Testament
On my bed at night I sought the one I love; I sought him, but did not find him.
✦ Song of Solomon 3:2 Old Testament
I will arise now and go about the city, through the streets and squares. I will seek the one I love. So I sought him but did not find him.
✦ Song of Solomon 3:3 Old Testament
I encountered the watchmen on their rounds of the city: “Have you seen the one I love?”
✦ Song of Solomon 3:4 Old Testament
I had just passed them when I found the one I love. I held him and would not let go until I had brought him to my mother’s house, to the chamber of the one who conceived me.
✦ Song of Solomon 3:5 Old Testament
O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you by the gazelles and does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until the time is right.
✦ Song of Solomon 3:10 Old Testament
He has made its posts of silver, its base of gold, its seat of purple fabric. Its interior is inlaid with love by the daughters of Jerusalem.
✦ Song of Solomon 4:3 Old Testament
Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon, and your mouth is lovely. Your brow behind your veil is like a slice of pomegranate.
✦ Song of Solomon 4:10 Old Testament
How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride! Your love is much better than wine, and the fragrance of your perfume than all spices.
✦ Song of Solomon 4:16 Old Testament
Awake, O north wind, and come, O south wind. Breathe on my garden and spread the fragrance of its spices. Let my beloved come into his garden and taste its choicest fruits.
✦ Song of Solomon 5:1 Old Testament
I have come to my garden, my sister, my bride; I have gathered my myrrh with my spice. I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends, and drink; drink freely, O beloved.
✦ Song of Solomon 5:2 Old Testament
I sleep, but my heart is awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking: “Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one. My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.”
✦ Song of Solomon 5:4 Old Testament
My beloved put his hand to the latch; my heart pounded for him.
✦ Song of Solomon 5:5 Old Testament
I rose up to open for my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with flowing myrrh on the handles of the bolt.
✦ Song of Solomon 5:6 Old Testament
I opened for my beloved, but he had turned and gone. My heart sank at his departure. I sought him, but did not find him. I called, but he did not answer.
✦ Song of Solomon 5:8 Old Testament
O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you, if you find my beloved, tell him I am sick with love.
✦ Song of Solomon 5:9 Old Testament
How is your beloved better than others, O most beautiful among women? How is your beloved better than another, that you charge us so?
✦ Song of Solomon 5:10 Old Testament
My beloved is dazzling and ruddy, outstanding among ten thousand.
✦ Song of Solomon 5:16 Old Testament
His mouth is most sweet; he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.