Song of Solomon 3:2

I will rise now, and go about in the city, 1 In the marketplaces, and in the streets, 1 And I will seek him whom my soul loves: 1 I sought him, but I found him not. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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

1By night on my bed 1 I sought him whom my soul loves: 1 I sought him, but found him not; 1 I called him, but he hearkened not to me. 1

3The watchmen who go their rounds in the city found me. 1 I said, Have ye seen him whom my soul loves? 1

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Cross References

Psalms 22:1A Psalm of David. 1 The Lord tends me as a shepherd, 1 And I shall want nothing. 1

Psalms 43:2O God, we have heard with our ears, 1 Our fathers have told us, 1 The work which thou wroughtest in their days, in the days of old. 1

Proverbs 1:20Wisdom sings aloud in passages, 1 And in the broad places speaks boldly. 1

Proverbs 8:34Watching daily at my doors, 1 Waiting at the posts of my entrances. 1

Song of Solomon 5:5I rose up to open to my kinsman; 1 My hands dropped myrrh, 1 My fingers choice myrrh, 1 On the handles of the lock. 1

Jeremiah 5:1Run ye about in the streets of Jerusalem, and see, and know, and seek in her broad places, if ye can find one, if there is anyone that does judgment, and seeks faithfulness; and I will pardon them, saith the Lord.

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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