Song of Solomon 3:4
I had scarcely passed from them, when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, into the room of her who conceived me.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
In Context
3The watchmen who go about the city found me; “Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”
Cross References
Proverbs 4:13Take firm hold of instruction. Don’t let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.
Song of Solomon 1:7Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you graze your flock, where you rest them at noon; for why should I be as one who is veiled beside the flocks of your companions?
Song of Solomon 7:5Your head on you is like Carmel. The hair of your head like purple. The king is held captive in its tresses.
Isaiah 45:19I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I didn’t say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain.’ I, the LORD, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right.
Isaiah 54:1“Sing, barren, you who didn’t give birth! Break out into singing, and cry aloud, you who didn’t travail with child! For more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife,” says the LORD.
Jeremiah 29:13You shall seek me and find me, when you search for me with all your heart.
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 →