Song of Solomon 3:2

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

LXX2012 (US English)

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 I sought him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but found him not; I called him, but he listened not to me.

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

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Cross References

Psalms 22:1The Lord tends me as a shepherd, and I shall lack nothing. 1

Psalms 43:2Your hand utterly destroyed the heathen, and you did plant them: you did afflict the nations, and cast them out. 1

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

Proverbs 8:34watching daily at my doors, waiting at the posts of my entrances.

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

Jeremiah 5:1Run you⌃ about in the streets of Jerusalem, and see, and know, and seek in her broad places, if you⌃ can find one, if there is any one that does judgment, and seeks faithfulness; and I will pardon them, says 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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