Song of Songs 3:1-5

1Night after night on my bed I looked for the one I love. I looked for him but did not find him.

2I will get up now and roam around the city, in the streets, and in the squares. I will look for the one I love. I looked for him but did not find him.

3The watchmen making their rounds in the city found me. ⌞I asked,⌟ “Have you seen the one I love?”

4I had just left them when I found the one I love. I held on to him and would not let him go until I had brought him into my mother’s house, into the bedroom of the one who conceived me.

5Young women of Jerusalem, swear to me by the gazelles or by the does in the field, that you will not awaken love or arouse love before its proper time.