Song of Solomon 8:4

I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up ,

nor awake my love, until he please. The phrase, "by the roes and by the hinds of the field", used in Song of Solomon 2:7 ; is here omitted; not as if the charge was less vehement and earnest here, for the form of expostulation seems rather to express more earnestness: for the words may be rendered, "why will ye", or "why should ye stir up, and why awake my love?" F9 מה , "cur", Montanus, Schmidt. being apprehensive they were about to do it; and which she dissuades from, as unreasonable and dangerous, and might be prejudicial to them as well as to her. The allusion is to virgins, that sung songs at marriages; one in the evening, lulling to sleep; and another in the morning, awaking and stirring up from it F11 Vid. Theocrit. Idyll. 18. .