²⁹ And Mary, hearing this, got up quickly and went to him.

⁸ When you said, Make search for my face, my heart said to you, For your face will I make my search.

²³ A man has joy in the answer of his mouth: and a word at the right time, how good it is!

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.

⁵⁹ I gave thought to my steps, and my feet were turned into the way of your unchanging word.

⁶⁰ I was quick to do your orders, and let no time be wasted.

¹⁷ Iron makes iron sharp; so a man makes sharp his friend.