6. His left hand is under my rosh, and his right hand doth embrace me.
7. I charge you, O ye banot Yerushalayim, by the gazelles, and by the deer of the sadeh, that ye arouse nor awake HaAhavah till it pleases [i.e., until its own time--see 3:5; 8:4].
8. Kol dodi (the voice of my beloved)! Hinei, he cometh leaping upon the harim, bounding over the hills.
9. Dodi (my beloved) is like a gazelle or a young deer; hinei, he standeth behind our Kotel (Wall); he looketh forth at the chalonot (windows), peering through the lattices [Rev 3:20].
10. Dodi (my beloved) spoke, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.
11. For, hinei, the winter is past, the geshem (rain) is over and gone;