The Beloved about Her Lover:
3:1 All night long 1 on my bed 2
I longed for 3 my lover. 4
I longed for 5 him but he never appeared. 6
3:2 “I will arise 7 and look all around 8 throughout the town,
and throughout the streets 9 and squares;
I will search for my beloved.”
I searched for him but I did not find him. 10
3:3 The night watchmen found me – the ones who guard the city walls. 11
“Have you seen my beloved?” 12
3:4 Scarcely 13 had I passed them by
when I found my beloved!
I held onto him 14 tightly and would not let him go 15
until I brought him to my mother’s house, 16
to the bedroom chamber 17 of the one who conceived me.