Song of Solomon 3:3-5

International Children’s Bible

³ The watchmen found me as they patrolled the city.
    I asked, “Have you seen the one I love?”
⁴ As soon as I had left them
    I found the one I love.
I held him. I would not let him go
    until I had brought him to my mother’s house.
    I brought him into the room where I was born.

⁵ Women of Jerusalem, promise me
    by the gazelles and the deer.
Promise not to wake love.
    Don’t excite my feelings of love
    until I’m ready.