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

  1. 2:5 Or apples
  2. 2:7 Lit until it pleases