Song of Solomon 3:2
I will rise up, and I will circle through the city. Through the side streets and thoroughfares, I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, and did not find him.
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In Context
3The watchers who guard the city found me: “Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”
Cross References
Psalms 22:1A Psalm of David. The Lord directs me, and nothing will be lacking to me.
Psalms 43:2We have heard, O God, with our own ears. Our fathers have announced to us the work that you wrought in their days and in the days of antiquity.
Proverbs 1:20Wisdom forewarns far and wide; she bestows her voice in the streets.
Proverbs 8:34Blessed is the man who listens to me, and who stands watch at my gates every day, and who observes at the posts of my doors.
Song of Solomon 5:5Bride: I have taken off my tunic; how shall I be clothed in it? I have washed my feet; how shall I spoil them?
Jeremiah 5:1“Travel the streets of Jerusalem; and gaze, and consider, and seek, in its wide streets. If you can find a man exercising judgment and seeking faith, then I will be forgiving to them.
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 →