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Scripture Text: Song of Solomon  2:7      (22a, page 178)

Verse 7

I want you to promise me, O young women of Jerusalem,

by the gazelles and by the does of the field,

not to arouse, not to awaken love until love pleases to awaken.

Below are some selections from other versions.

Verse  7

[He said] I charge you, O you daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or by the hinds of the field [which are free to follow their own instincts] that you not try to stir up or awaken [my] love until it pleases.  AMP

Verse 7

Stir not up nor wake the love till she please! YLT

Verse  7

that you not stir up or awaken love until it pleases.ESV

7 Verse

Don’t excite love, don’t stir it up, until the time is ripe–and you’re ready MSG

Verse  7

not to awaken love until the time is right. NLT  Or not to awaken love until it is ready.

Verse 7

promise me by the power of deer and gazelles never to awaken love

before it is ready CEV

comments attached to the translation

deer and gazelles: Deer and gazelles were sacred animals in some religions of Old Testament times, and they were thought to have special powers. CEV

Verse  7

Do not stir up nor awaken love until it pleases. NKJV

Verse  7

that ye stir not up nor awake my love till he please. KJ21

Verse  7

that you do not arouse or stir up love until it is pleased FRU

Verse  7

That ye stir not up, nor awake my love, Until he please. ASV

Verse  7

Don’t stir up love. Don’t wake it up until it’s ready. NIRV

Verse 7

I want you to  promise me, O young women of Jerusalem, by the gazelles and by the does of the field, not to arouse, not to awaken love until love pleases to awaken. GLK

In the previous verse she is talking about being faint with love.  Is she now saying, Do what I say, not what I do.  This isn’t good for you, but it is all right if I do it?

No, I don’t thing that is what she is saying.  I think she is becoming very excited mentally and she is trying to hold herself back physically and mentally.  She is giving the girls a warning that she is also giving to herself.  Watch out.  It is easy to get excited and jump into the physical and emotional pool of love.  It is way harder to reverse that and get out.