Song of Songs 8:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, do not let love be moved till it is ready.

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Referenced Verses

  • Song 2:7 : 7 I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes of the field, do not let love be moved till it is ready.
  • Song 3:5 : 5 I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes of the field, let not love be moved till it is ready.

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  • Song 2:4-8
    5 verses
    94%

    4 He took me to the house of wine, and his flag over me was love.

    5 Make me strong with wine-cakes, let me be comforted with apples; I am overcome with love.

    6 His left hand is under my head, and his right hand is round about me.

    7 I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes of the field, do not let love be moved till it is ready.

    8 The voice of my loved one! See, he comes dancing on the mountains, stepping quickly on the hills.

  • Song 3:3-6
    4 verses
    93%

    3 The watchmen who go about the town came by me; to them I said, Have you seen him who is my heart's desire?

    4 I was but a little way from them, when I came face to face with him who is the love of my soul. I took him by the hands, and did not let him go, till I had taken him into my mother's house, and into the room of her who gave me birth.

    5 I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes of the field, let not love be moved till it is ready.

    6 Who is this coming out of the waste places like pillars of smoke, perfumed with sweet spices, with all the spices of the trader?

  • Song 5:7-9
    3 verses
    83%

    7 The keepers who go about the town overtook me; they gave me blows and wounds; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.

    8 I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you see my loved one, what will you say to him? That I am overcome with love.

    9 What is your loved one more than another, O fairest among women? What is your loved one more than another, that you say this to us?

  • Song 8:2-3
    2 verses
    82%

    2 I would take you by the hand into my mother's house, and she would be my teacher. I would give you drink of spiced wine, drink of the pomegranate.

    3 His left hand would be under my head, and his right hand about me.

  • Song 8:5-6
    2 verses
    80%

    5 Who is this, who comes up from the waste places, resting on her loved one? It was I who made you awake under the apple-tree, where your mother gave you birth; there she was in pain at your birth.

    6 Put me as a sign on your heart, as a sign on your arm; love is strong as death, and wrath bitter as the underworld: its coals are coals of fire; violent are its flames.

  • Song 5:1-2
    2 verses
    77%

    1 I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride; to take my myrrh with my spice; my wax with my honey; my wine with my milk. Take meat, O friends; take wine, yes, be overcome with love.

    2 I am sleeping, but my heart is awake; it is the sound of my loved one at the door, saying, Be open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my very beautiful one; my head is wet with dew, and my hair with the drops of the night.

  • Song 2:10
    77%

    10 My loved one said to me, Get up, my love, my fair one, and come away.

  • Song 4:5-6
    2 verses
    77%

    5 Your two breasts are like two young roes of the same birth, which take their food among the lilies.

    6 Till the evening comes, and the sky slowly becomes dark, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.

  • Song 7:10-12
    3 verses
    76%

    10 I am for my loved one, and his desire is for me.

    11 Come, my loved one, let us go out into the field; let us take rest among the cypress-trees.

    12 Let us go out early to the vine-gardens; let us see if the vine is in bud, if it has put out its young fruit, and the pomegranate is in flower. There I will give you my love.

  • Song 4:15-16
    2 verses
    76%

    15 You are a fountain of gardens, a spring of living waters, and flowing waters from Lebanon.

    16 Be awake, O north wind; and come, O south, blowing on my garden, so that its spices may come out. Let my loved one come into his garden, and take of his good fruits.

  • Song 8:13-14
    2 verses
    75%

    13 You who have your resting-place in the gardens, the friends give ear to your voice; make me give ear to it.

    14 Come quickly, my loved one, and be like a roe on the mountains of spice.

  • Song 6:4
    75%

    4 You are beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, as fair as Jerusalem; you are to be feared like an army with flags.

  • Song 1:7-9
    3 verses
    75%

    7 Say, O love of my soul, where you give food to your flock, and where you make them take their rest in the heat of the day; why have I to be as one wandering by the flocks of your friends?

    8 If you have not knowledge, O most beautiful among women, go on your way in the footsteps of the flock, and give your young goats food by the tents of the keepers.

    9 I have made a comparison of you, O my love, to a horse in Pharaoh's carriages.

  • Song 1:4
    74%

    4 Take me to you, and we will go after you: the king has taken me into his house. We will be glad and full of joy in you, we will give more thought to your love than to wine: rightly are they your lovers.

  • Song 4:8-10
    3 verses
    74%

    8 Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, with me from Lebanon; see from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir and Hermon, from the places of the lions, from the mountains of the leopards.

    9 You have taken away my heart, my sister, my bride; you have taken away my heart, with one look you have taken it, with one chain of your neck!

    10 How fair is your love, my sister! How much better is your love than wine, and the smell of your oils than any perfume!

  • Song 1:13-14
    2 verses
    74%

    13 As a bag of myrrh is my well-loved one to me, when he is at rest all night between my breasts.

    14 My love is to me as a branch of the cypress-tree in the vine-gardens of En-gedi.

  • Song 2:13-14
    2 verses
    74%

    13 The fig-tree puts out her green fruit and the vines with their young fruit give a good smell. Get up from your bed, my beautiful one, and come away.

    14 O my dove, you are in the holes of the mountain sides, in the cracks of the high hills; let me see your face, let your voice come to my ears; for sweet is your voice, and your face is fair.

  • Song 7:6
    74%

    6 How beautiful and how sweet you are, O love, for delight.

  • Prov 7:18
    74%

    18 Come, let us take our pleasure in love till the morning, having joy in love's delights.

  • Song 4:12
    73%

    12 A garden walled-in is my sister, my bride; a garden shut up, a spring of water stopped.

  • Song 2:16-17
    2 verses
    73%

    16 My loved one is mine, and I am his: he takes his food among the flowers.

    17 Till the evening comes, and the sky slowly becomes dark, come, my loved one, and be like a roe on the mountains of Bether.

  • Song 6:1
    73%

    1 Where is your loved one gone, O most fair among women? Where is your loved one turned away, that we may go looking for him with you?

  • Song 5:16
    73%

    16 His mouth is most sweet; yes, he is all beautiful. This is my loved one, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

  • Prov 5:19-20
    2 verses
    73%

    19 As a loving hind and a gentle doe, let her breasts ever give you rapture; let your passion at all times be moved by her love.

    20 Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?

  • Song 1:2
    72%

    2 Let him give me the kisses of his mouth: for his love is better than wine.