Song of Songs 3:4-5
Scarcely had I passed them
when I found him whom my soul loves.
I held him, and would not let him go
until I had brought him into my mother's house,
and into the chamber of her who conceived me.
I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
by the gazelles or the does of the field,
that you not stir up or awaken love
until it pleases.'
Subject: Love and Sex
In the above passage the woman in the story of love has been out looking for her lover. She finally finds him and is drawn to him. Although are not yet married, they have a lover for each other and in the previous verses they embrace. This embracing stirs the above response. The woman, in her mind, is ready to take her man to her bed to enjoy the physical side of their love. As she thinks through those thoughts, she stops to think again. She realizes that this physical intimacy she is thinking about is good and proper, but only in its time. As a result she stops her thought and makes sure the other women in the city realize that the power of intimacy is super strong and it should not be "awaken" until the proper time. Sexual desire is not wrong, but the timing of when to fulfill it, can be.
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