Song of Solomon 3:1 Explained in Context

Verse 1. ¹ By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

Verse 2. ² I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

Verse 3. ³ The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?

Verse 4. ⁴ It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.

Verse 5. ⁵ I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.