1 By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth:I sought him, but I found him not.
2 I will rise now, and go about the cityin the streets, and in the broad waysI will seek him whom my soul loveth:I sought him, but I found him not.
3 The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?
4 It was but a little that I passed from them,but I found him whom my soul loveth:I held him, and would not let him go,until I had brought him into my mother's house,and into the chamber of her that conceived me.