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Song of Songs 8:4
O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you:
from Longing for Her Beloved, Song of Songs 8:1-4
What it says

She adjures the daughters of Jerusalem not to awaken love until it pleases.

What it is doing

This verse repeats the poem's closing caution about timing.

In context

1O that you were to me like a brother 2I would lead you and bring you 3His left hand is under my head, 4O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you:

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