Song of Solomon 2:7-9

International Children’s Bible

⁷ Women of Jerusalem, promise me
    by the gazelles and the deer.
Promise not to wake love.
    Don’t excite my feelings of love
    until I’m ready.

⁸ I hear my lover’s voice.
    He comes jumping across the mountains.
    He comes skipping over the hills!
⁹ My lover is like a gazelle or a young deer.
    Look, he stands behind our wall.
He stares in through the windows,
    looking through the blinds.