Song of Songs 3:1-5

Christian Standard Bible

3 In my bed at night^[a]
I sought the one I love;^(A)
I sought him, but did not find him.^[b](B)
2 I will arise now and go about the city,
through the streets and the plazas.^(C)
I will seek the one I love.
I sought him, but did not find him.
³ The guards who go about the city found me.^(D)
I asked them, “Have you seen the one I love?”
⁴ I had just passed them
when I found the one I love.
I held on to him and would not let him go
until I brought him to my mother’s house^(E)—
to the chamber of the one who conceived me.
⁵ Young women of Jerusalem, I charge you
by the gazelles and the wild does of the field,
do not stir up or awaken love
until the appropriate time.^[c](F)