3:4 Scarcely 1 had I passed them by
when I found my beloved!
I held onto him 2 tightly and would not let him go 3
until I brought him to my mother’s house, 4
to the bedroom chamber 5 of the one who conceived me.
The Beloved to the Maidens:
3:5 6 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!”