Song of Solomon 3:2 · KJV
“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.”
— Song of Solomon 3:2
By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
The watchmen that go about the city found me: {to whom I said}, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?
Song of Solomon 3 — Context
By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
2I 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.
3The watchmen that go about the city found me: {to whom I said}, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?
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.
Cross References
Romans 13:11
And that, knowing the time, that now {it is} high time to awake out of sleep: for now {is} our salvation nearer than when we believed.
Ephesians 5:14
Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. {he: or, it}
Proverbs 1:20-21
Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: {Wisdom: Heb. Wisdoms, that is, Excellent wisdom}
Luke 14:21-23
So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. 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 maimed, and the halt, and the blind.
Psalms 77:7-10
Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?
Song of Solomon 5:5
I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped {with} myrrh, and my fingers {with} sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock. {sweet...: Heb. passing, or, running about}
Matthew 26:40-41
Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed {is} willing, but the flesh {is} weak.
Psalms 42:7-9
Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
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