Song of Solomon 3:1-5

Living Bible

3 The Girl: “One night my lover was missing from my bed. I got up to look for him but couldn’t find him. ² I went out into the streets of the city and the roads to seek him, but I searched in vain. ³ The police stopped me, and I said to them, ‘Have you seen him anywhere, this one I love so much?’ ⁴ It was only a little while afterwards that I found him and held him and would not let him go until I had brought him into my childhood home, into my mother’s old bedroom. ⁵ I adjure you, O women of Jerusalem, by the gazelles and deer of the park, not to awake my lover. Let him sleep.”

The Young Women of Jerusalem: