New Revised Standard Version
“I will rise now and go about the city, in the streets and in the squares; I will seek him whom my soul loves.” I sought him, but found him not.

Contemporary English Version
So I searched through the town for the one I love. I looked on every street, but he wasn't there.

New American Bible
“Let me rise then and go about the city, through the streets and squares; Let me seek him whom my soul loves.” I sought him but I did not find him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I will rise, and will go about the city: in the streets and the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, and I found him not.

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

will rise

Songs 5:5 I arose up to open to my beloved: my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers were full of the choicest myrrh.

Isaiah 64:7 There is none that calleth upon thy name: that riseth up, and taketh hold of thee: thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast crushed us in the hand of our iniquity.

John 1:6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

Matthew 26:40,41 And he cometh to his disciples and findeth them asleep. And he saith to Peter: What? Could you not watch one hour with me? . . .

Romans 13:11 And that, knowing the season, that it is now the hour for us to rise from sleep. For now our salvation is nearer than when we believed.

1 Corinthians 15:34 Awake, ye just, and sin not. For some have not the knowledge of God. I speak it to your shame.

Ephesians 5:14 Wherefore he saith: Rise, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead: and Christ shall enlighten thee.

the streets

Proverbs 1:20,21 At the head of multitudes she crieth out, in the entrance of the gates of the city she uttereth her words, saying: . . .

Proverbs 8:2,3,34 Beside the gates of the city, in the very doors she speaketh, saying: . . .

Luke 14:21-23 And the servant returning, told these things to his lord. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant: Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city; and bring in hither the poor and the feeble and the blind and the lame. . . .

i sought

Psalm 22:1,2 Unto the end, for the morning protection, a psalm for David. [2] O God my God, look upon me: why hast thou forsaken me? Far from my salvation are the words of my sins. . . .

Psalm 42:7-9 Deep calleth on deep, at the noise of thy flood-gates. All thy heights and thy billows have passed over me. . . .

Psalm 43:2-5 For thou art God my strength: why hast thou cast me off? and why do I go sorrowful whilst the enemy afflicteth me? . . .

Psalm 77:7-10 Will God then cast off for ever? or will he never be more favourable again? . . .