5. Sustain me with cakes of raisins, comfort me with apples: ki cholat ahavah ani (for I am faint with ahavah, lovesick).
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].