Song of Solomon 3:2

I will rise, and will go about the city: in the streets and the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, and I found him not.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

1In my bed by night I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, and found him not.

3The watchmen who keep the city, found me: Have you seen him, whom my soul loveth?

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Cross References

Psalms 22:1Unto the end, for the morning protection, a psalm for David.

Psalms 43:2For thou art God my strength : why hast thou cast me off? and why do I go sorrowful whilst the enemy afflicteth me?

Proverbs 1:20Wisdom preacheth abroad, she uttereth her voice in the streets:

Proverbs 8:34Blessed is the man that heareth me, and that watcheth daily at my gates, and waiteth at the posts of my doors.

Song of Solomon 5:5I arose up to open to my beloved: my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers were full of the choicest myrrh.

Jeremiah 5:1Go about through the streets of Jerusalem, and see, and consider, and seek in the broad places thereof, if you can fins a man that executeth judgement, and seeketh faith: and I will be merciful unto it.

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 →

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