4. He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love [for love waved as a protecting and comforting banner over my head when I was near him].
5. Sustain me with raisins, refresh me with apples, for I am sick with love.
6. [I can feel] his left hand under my head and his right hand embraces me! [Deut. 33:27; Matt. 28:20.]
7. [He said] I charge you, O you daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or by the hinds of the field [which are free to follow their own instincts] that you not try to stir up or awaken [my] love until it pleases.
8. [Vividly she pictured it] The voice of my beloved [shepherd]! Behold, he comes, leaping upon the mountains, bounding over the hills. [John 10:27.]
9. My beloved is like a gazelle or a young hart. Behold, he stands behind the wall of our house, he looks in through the windows, he glances through the lattice.
10. My beloved speaks and says to me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.
11. For, behold, the winter is past; the rain is over and gone.
12. The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing [of birds] has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.
13. The fig tree puts forth and ripens her green figs, and the vines are in blossom and give forth their fragrance. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.