Song of Solomon 3:2-4

Expanded Bible

² I ·got [rose] up and went around the city,
    in the streets and ·squares [public areas],
·looking [searching] for the one ·I love [my soul loves].
    I ·looked [searched] for him, but I could not find him.
³ The ·watchmen [guards; ^Cancient equivalent to the police] found me as they patrolled the city,
    so I asked, “Have you seen the one ·I love [^Lmy soul loves]?”
⁴ ·As soon as [or A little while after] I had left them,
    I found the one ·I love [^Lmy soul loves].
I ·held [seized; grabbed] him and would not let him go
    until I brought him to my mother’s house,
to the room where ·I was born [^Lshe conceived me; 8:2].