The search

¹Upon my bed, night after night,

I looked for him but couldn’t find him.

²“I will rise now and go all around the city,

I will look for the one whom I love with all my heart.”

I looked for him but couldn’t find him.

³The guards found me,

“The one whom I love with all my heart—

⁴No sooner did I depart from them

I held on to him and now I won’t let him go,

⁵I place you under oath, daughters of Jerusalem,

Visions of grandeur

⁶Who is this, coming up from the wilderness,

She is perfumed with myrrh and frankincense,

⁷Picture Solomon’s bed—

⁸all of them skilled with the sword,

⁹King Solomon made a canopied couch for himself

¹⁰Its pillars he made of silver,

Daughters of Jerusalem,

¹¹go forth!

Look, daughters of Zion—