Song of Solomon 3:2
'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.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
1By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth; I sought him, but I found him not.
3The watchmen that go about the city found me: 'Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?'
Cross References
Psalms 22:1(22-1) For the Leader; upon Aijeleth ha-Shahar. A Psalm of David. (22-2) My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me, and art far from my help at the words of my cry?
Psalms 43:2For Thou art the God of my strength; why hast Thou cast me off? Why go I mourning under the oppression of the enemy?
Proverbs 1:20Wisdom crieth aloud in the streets, she uttereth her voice in the broad places;
Proverbs 8:34Happy is the man that hearkeneth to 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 dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with flowing myrrh, upon the handles of the bar.
Jeremiah 5:1Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that doeth justly, that seeketh 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 →