⁹ In the night the desire of my soul has been for you; early will my spirit be searching for you; for when your punishments come on the earth, the people of the world will get the knowledge of righteousness.

³³ But let your first care be for his kingdom and his righteousness; and all these other things will be given to you in addition.

¹ <A Psalm. Of David. When he was in the waste land of Judah.> O God, you are my God; early will I make my search for you: my soul is dry for need of you, my flesh is wasted with desire for you, as a dry and burning land where no water is;

⁶² In the middle of the night I will get up to give you praise, because of all your right decisions.

¹⁷ Those who have given me their love are loved by me, and those who make search for me with care will get me.

¹ By night on my bed I was looking for him who is the love of my soul: I was looking for him, but I did not see him.

² I will get up now and go about the town, in the streets and in the wide ways I will go after him who is the love of my soul: I went after him, but I did not see him.

³ The watchmen who go about the town came by me; to them I said, Have you seen him who is my heart's desire?

⁴ I was but a little way from them, when I came face to face with him who is the love of my soul. I took him by the hands, and did not let him go, till I had taken him into my mother's house, and into the room of her who gave me birth.

¹⁵ I will go back to my place till they are made waste; in their trouble they will go after me early and will make search for me.

¹² And it came about in those days that he went out to the mountain for prayer; and he was all night in prayer to God.

¹³ And in that hour there was a great earth-shock and a tenth part of the town came to destruction; and in the earth-shock seven thousand persons came to their end: and the rest were in fear, and gave glory to the God of heaven.

³⁵ And in the morning, a long time before daylight, he got up and went out to a quiet place, and there he gave himself up to prayer.

⁶ Make search for the Lord while he is there, make prayer to him while he is near:

⁹ So by this will the sin of Jacob be covered, and this is all the fruit of taking away his punishment; when all the stones of the altar are crushed together, so that the wood pillars and the sun-images will not be put up again.

¹¹ So that men will say, Truly there is a reward for righteousness; truly there is a God who is judge on the earth.

⁶ When the memory of you comes to me on my bed, and when I give thought to you in the night-time.

⁷ Because you have been my help, I will have joy in the shade of your wings.

⁹ And in fear men make public the works of God; and giving thought to his acts they get wisdom.

² In the day of my trouble, my heart was turned to the Lord: my hand was stretched out in the night without resting; my soul would not be comforted.

³ I will keep God in memory, with sounds of grief; my thoughts are troubled, and my spirit is overcome. (Selah.)

³⁴ When he sent death on them, then they made search for him; turning to him and looking for him with care;

¹⁸ So that men may see that you only, whose name is Yahweh, are Most High over all the earth.

⁶ My soul is watching for the Lord more than those who are watching for the morning; yes, more than the watchers for the morning.

² I am sleeping, but my heart is awake; it is the sound of my loved one at the door, saying, Be open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my very beautiful one; my head is wet with dew, and my hair with the drops of the night.

³ I have put off my coat; how may I put it on? My feet are washed; how may I make them unclean?

⁴ My loved one put his hand on the door, and my heart was moved for him.

⁵ I got up to let my loved one in; and my hands were dropping with myrrh, and my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the lock of the door.

⁶ I made the door open to my loved one; but my loved one had taken himself away, and was gone, my soul was feeble when his back was turned on me; I went after him, but I did not come near him; I said his name, but he gave me no answer.

⁷ The keepers who go about the town overtook me; they gave me blows and wounds; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.

⁸ I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you see my loved one, what will you say to him? That I am overcome with love.

²¹ But truly, as I am living, and as all the earth will be full of the glory of the Lord;

²² Because all these men, having seen my glory and the signs which I have done in Egypt and in the waste land, still have put me to the test ten times, and have not given ear to my voice;

²³ They will not see the land about which I made an oath to their fathers; not one of these by whom I have not been honoured will see it.