The Beloved about Her Lover:

3 All night long on my bed

I longed for my lover.

I longed for him but he never appeared.

2 “I will arise and look all around throughout the town,

and throughout the streets and squares;

I will search for my beloved.”

I searched for him but I did not find him.

3 The night watchmen found me – the ones who guard the city walls.

“Have you seen my beloved?”

4 Scarcely had I passed them by

when I found my beloved!

I held onto him tightly and would not let him go

until I brought him to my mother’s house,

to the bedroom chamber of the one who conceived me.