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Song of Songs 8:4 — I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor…

“I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.”
Song of Songs 8:4 · KJV

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The verses around Song of Songs 8:4.

2I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother’s house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.

3His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.

4I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.

5Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee.

6Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.

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Verse explanation

The refrain about not stirring up love before the right time appears here for the last time, closing a pattern that had already marked important pauses in earlier chapters of the book.

From the Song of Songs 8 study in Bible in Stories.

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