Young women of Jerusalem, I charge you
by the gazelles and the wild does of the field:
do not stir up or awaken love
until the appropriate time.

The blossoms appear in the countryside.
The time of singing has come,
and the turtledove’s cooing is heard in our land.

Young women of Jerusalem, I charge you
by the gazelles and the wild does of the field:
do not stir up or awaken love
until the appropriate time.

Young women of Jerusalem, I charge you:
do not stir up or awaken love
until the appropriate time.