Song of Solomon 3:1-5

World English Bible

    I sought him whom my soul loves.
    I sought him, but I didn’t find him.
² I will get up now, and go about the city;
    in the streets and in the squares I will seek him whom my soul loves.
    I sought him, but I didn’t find him.
³ The watchmen who go about the city found me;
    “Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”
⁴ I had scarcely passed from 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,
    into the room of her who conceived me.

⁵ I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem,
    by the roes, or by the hinds of the field,
    that you not stir up nor awaken love,
    until it so desires.