now do it for this one After reading the required resources, I have come to an assumption that the phrase "Do not awaken love before its time" means do not lust towards others before your time to true relationship/ marriage/ LOVE. "Sustain me with raisins, refresh me with apples, for I am faint with love; O that his left hand was under my head and that his right hand embraced me. O daughters of Jerusalem do not stir up or awaken love until it is ready" that statement helps my thought of the author wanting the reader to know to sustain from lusting over others (Song 2:5-7). Other scholars suggest that this is a poem of love but as you read this "love poetry" they invite you to "pay attention to the hyperlinks" and the "biblically symbolic interpretation" (Tim and Jon, transcript pg 4). Tanner suggests that "song does celebrate the dignity and purity of human love, that song is didactic and moral. Coming to us in this world of sin, where lust and passion are on every hand, where fierce temptations assail us and try to turn us aside from the God-given standard of marriage" (Tanner, pg.44). Tanner highlights this phrase as a "spiritual metaphor", suggesting the reader to wait for God's divine timing, and not to rush into any romantic or emotional relationship (Tanner, pg 46). According to the bible a righteous time for anything and everything God is in control of "For everything there is a season and a time for every matter under heaven (Ecclesiastes 3:1). This passage does not