The Adjuration Refrain
The Beloved to the Maidens:
3:5 1 I admonish you, O maidens of Jerusalem,
by the gazelles and by the young does of the open fields:
“Do not awake or arouse love until it pleases!”
The Beloved to Her Lover:
4:16 Awake, O north wind; come, O south wind!
Blow on my garden so that its fragrant spices may send out their sweet smell. 2
May my beloved come into his garden
and eat its delightful fruit!
1 tn See the notes on these lines at 2:7.
2 tn Heb “may flow.”