Songs 5:8
Good News Translation
Promise me, women of Jerusalem, that if you find my lover, you will tell him I am weak from passion.

New Revised Standard Version
I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, tell him this: I am faint with love.

Contemporary English Version
Young women of Jerusalem, if you find the one I love, please say to him, "She is weak with desire."

New American Bible
I adjure you, Daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my lover What shall you tell him? that I am sick with love.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him that I languish with love.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him that I languish with love.

charge

Songs 2:7 I adjure you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and the harts of the field, that you stir not up, nor make the beloved to awake, till she please.

Songs 8:4 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you stir not up, nor awake my love till she please.

if ye

Romans 15:30 I beseech you therefore, brethren, through our Lord Jesus Christ and by the charity of the Holy Ghost, that you help me in your prayers for me to God,

Galatians 6:1,2 Brethren, and if a man be overtaken in any fault, you, who are spiritual, instruct such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. . . .

James 5:16 Confess therefore your sins one to another: and pray one for another, that you may be saved. For the continual prayer of a just man availeth much.

that ye

Psalm 42:1-3 Unto the end, understanding for the sons of Core. [2] As the hart panteth after the fountains of water; so my soul panteth after thee, O God. . . .

Psalm 63:1-3 A psalm of David while he was in the desert of Edom. [2] O God, my God, to thee do I watch at break of day. For thee my soul hath thirsted; for thee my flesh, O how many ways! . . .

Psalm 77:1-3 Unto the end, for Idithun, a psalm of Asaph. [2] I cried to the Lord with my voice; to God with my voice, and he gave ear to me. . . .

Psalm 119:81-83 My soul hath fainted after thy salvation: and in thy word I have very much hoped. . . .

Context
The Bride and Her Beloved
7The keepers that go about the city found me: they struck me: and wounded me: the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me. 8I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him that I languish with love.9What manner of one is thy beloved of the beloved, O thou most beautiful among women? what manner of one is thy beloved of the beloved, that thou hast so adjured us?…
Cross References
Songs 1:5
Do not consider me that I am brown, because the sun hath altered my colour: the sons of my mother have fought against me, they have made me the keeper in the vineyards: my vineyard I have not kept.

Songs 2:5
Stay me up with flowers, compass me about with apples: because I languish with love.

Songs 2:7
I adjure you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and the harts of the field, that you stir not up, nor make the beloved to awake, till she please.

Songs 3:5
I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes and the harts of the fields, that you stir not up, nor awake my beloved, till she please.

Songs 5:7
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