1. By night on my bed, 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.