Verse 2

I will get up now and go about the town, in the streets and in the wide ways I will go after him who is the love of my soul: I went after him, but I did not see him.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 22:1-2 : 1 <To the chief music-maker on Aijeleth-hash-shahar. A Psalm. Of David.> My God, my God, why are you turned away from me? why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my crying? 2 O my God, I make my cry in the day, and you give no answer; and in the night, and have no rest.
  • Ps 42:7-9 : 7 Deep is sounding to deep at the noise of your waterfalls; all your waves have gone rolling over me. 8 But the Lord will send his mercy in the daytime, and in the night his song will be with me, a prayer to the God of my life. 9 I will say to God my Rock, Why have you let me go from your memory? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?
  • Ps 43:2-5 : 2 You are the God of my strength; why have you put me from you? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters? 3 O send out your light and your true word; let them be my guide: let them take me to your holy hill, and to your tents. 4 Then I will go up to the altar of God, to the God of my joy; I will be glad and give praise to you on an instrument of music, O God, my God. 5 Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God, for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.
  • Ps 77:7-9 : 7 Will the Lord put me away for ever? will he be kind no longer? 8 Is his mercy quite gone for ever? has his word come to nothing? 9 Has God put away the memory of his pity? are his mercies shut up by his wrath? (Selah.) 10 And I said, It is a weight on my spirit; but I will keep in mind the years of the right hand of the Most High.
  • Prov 1:20-21 : 20 Wisdom is crying out in the street; her voice is loud in the open places; 21 Her words are sounding in the meeting-places, and in the doorways of the town:
  • Prov 8:2-3 : 2 At the top of the highways, at the meeting of the roads, she takes her place; 3 Where the roads go into the town her cry goes out, at the doorways her voice is loud:
  • Prov 8:34 : 34 Happy is the man who gives ear to me, watching at my doors day by day, keeping his place by the pillars of my house.
  • Song 5:5 : 5 I got up to let my loved one in; and my hands were dropping with myrrh, and my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the lock of the door.
  • Isa 64:7 : 7 But now, O Lord, you are our father; we are the earth, and you are our maker; and we are all the work of your hand.
  • Jer 5:1 : 1 Go quickly through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and get knowledge, and make a search in her wide places if there is a man, if there is one in her who is upright, who keeps faith; and she will have my forgiveness.
  • Matt 26:40-41 : 40 And he comes to the disciples, and sees that they are sleeping, and says to Peter, What, were you not able to keep watch with me one hour? 41 Keep watch with prayer, so that you may not be put to the test: the spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is feeble.
  • Luke 14:21-23 : 21 And the servant came back and gave his master an account of these things. Then the master of the house was angry and said to the servant, Go out quickly into the streets of the town and get the poor, the blind, and those who are broken in body. 22 And the servant said, Lord, your orders have been done, and still there is room. 23 And the lord said to the servant, Go out into the roads and the fields, and make them come in, so that my house may be full.
  • John 1:6 : 6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
  • Rom 13:11 : 11 See then that the time has come for you to be awake from sleep: for now is your salvation nearer than when you first had faith.
  • 1 Cor 15:34 : 34 Be awake to righteousness and keep yourselves from sin; for some have no knowledge of God: I say this to put you to shame.
  • Eph 5:14 : 14 For this reason he says, Be awake, you who are sleeping, and come up from among the dead, and Christ will be your light.