Song of Solomon 3:2
[I said], I will rise now, and go around the city. In the streets and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I did not find him.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
1By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I did not find him.
3The watchmen who go about the city found me. [I said], Did ye see him whom my soul loves?
Cross References
Psalms 22:1My God, my God, why have thou forsaken me, far from helping me, [and] the words of my groaning?
Psalms 43:2For thou are the God of my strength. Why have thou cast me off? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Proverbs 1:20Wisdom cries aloud in the street. She utters her voice in the broad places.
Proverbs 8:34Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
Song of Solomon 5:5I rose up to open to my beloved, and my hands drops with myrrh, and my fingers with liquid myrrh, upon the handles of the bolt.
Jeremiah 5:1Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places if it, if ye can find a man, if there is any who does justly, who seeks truth, and I will pardon her.
Matthew Henry on Song of Solomon 3:2-6
The Love of the Church to Christ. 1 By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. 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. 3 The 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… Read the whole commentary →