1. All night long on my bedI 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 bywhen I found my beloved!I held onto him tightly and would not let him gountil I brought him to my mother’s house,to the bedroom chamber of the one who conceived me.