Song of Solomon 3:4
It was but a little that I passed from them when I found him whom my soul loves. 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 who conceived me.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
3The watchmen who go about the city found me. [I said], Did ye see him whom my soul loves?
Cross References
Proverbs 4:13Take firm hold of instruction. Do not let her go. Keep her, for she is thy life.
Song of Solomon 1:7Tell me, O thou whom my soul loves, where thou feed [thy flock], where thou make [it] to rest at noon. For why should I be as she who is veiled beside the flocks of thy companions?
Song of Solomon 7:5Thy head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thy head like purple. The king is held captive in the tresses.
Isaiah 45:19I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I did not say to the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain. I, LORD, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right.
Isaiah 54:1Sing, O barren, thou who did not bear. Break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou who did not travail with child. For more are the sons of the desolate than the sons of the married woman, says LORD.
Jeremiah 29:13And ye shall seek me, and find me when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
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 →