Passage Overview · Free · Song of Solomon 2:4–7
The Banqueting House and the First Adjuration
Love overwhelms the woman. She is brought into the banqueting house, speaks of a banner of love, asks for food because she is lovesick, and rests in an embrace. Then the poem abruptly turns outward: the daughters of Jerusalem are solemnly charged not to stir or awaken love “till it please.”
That final line is one of the Song’s structural keys. The same adjuration returns in 3:5 and 8:4, creating major internal seams. It is therefore both a statement about love’s timing and a literary refrain that helps organize the book.