Song of Solomon 3:5

5 Promise me, women of Jerusalem; swear by the swift deer and the gazelles that you will not interrupt our love.

Song of Solomon 3:5 Meaning and Commentary

Song of Solomon 3:5

I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem
Which are either the words of Christ, adjuring the young converts not to disturb the church; who had now Christ in her arms, taking repose with him, being wearied with running about in search of him: or they are the words of the church; who having experienced a long absence of Christ, and having been at much pains in search of him, and now had found him, was very unwilling to part with him; and fearing these young converts should by any unbecoming word or action provoke him to depart, she gives them a solemn charge; by the roes and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor
awake my love, till he please; (See Gill on Song of Solomon 2:7).

Song of Solomon 3:5 In-Context

3 The sentries patrolling the city saw me. I asked them, "Have you found my lover?"

4 As soon as I left them, I found him. I held him and wouldn't let him go until I took him to my mother's house, to the room where I was born.

5 Promise me, women of Jerusalem; swear by the swift deer and the gazelles that you will not interrupt our love.

6 What is this coming from the desert like a column of smoke, fragrant with incense and myrrh, the incense sold by the traders?

7 Solomon is coming, carried on his throne; sixty soldiers form the bodyguard, the finest soldiers in Israel.