Shir Hashirim 3:2-4

Orthodox Jewish Bible

² So I will rise then, and go about the city in the streets, and in the rechovot (open squares, places); I will seek him whom my nefesh loveth; I sought him, but found him not.

³ The shomrim (watchmen) that go about the city found me; to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my nefesh loveth?

⁴ Scarcely had I passed from them, when I found him whom my nefesh loveth; I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into the bais immi (the house of my mother), and into the cheder of her that conceived me.