The Banquet Hall for the Love-Sick

The Beloved about Her Lover:

2:4 He brought me15 into the banquet hall,16

and he looked17 at me lovingly.18

2:5 Sustain19 me with raisin cakes,20

refresh me with apples,21

for I am faint with love.22

The Double Refrain: Embracing and Adjuration

2:6 His left hand caresses my head,23

and his right hand stimulates me.24

The Beloved to the Maidens:

2:7 I adjure you,25 O maidens of Jerusalem,

by the gazelles and by the young does26 of the open fields:27

Do not awaken or arouse28 love29 until it pleases!30