Song of Songs 3:2

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I will arise now and go about the city, through the streets and the squares; I will seek the one my soul loves. I sought him, but I did not find him.

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  • Ps 22:1-2 : 1 For the director, to the tune of 'The Doe of the Morning,' a psalm of David. 2 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Far from saving me, from the words of my groaning.
  • Ps 42:7-9 : 7 My God, my soul is downcast within me. Therefore I will remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon, from Mount Mizar. 8 Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me. 9 By day the LORD commands his steadfast love, and at night his song is with me—a prayer to the God of my life.
  • Ps 43:2-5 : 2 For You are the God of my refuge; why have You rejected me? Why must I go about mourning under the oppression of my enemy? 3 Send Your light and Your truth; let them lead me. Let them bring me to Your holy mountain and to Your dwelling place. 4 Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my joy and delight. I will praise You with the harp, O God, my God. 5 Why are you cast down, my soul, and why are you so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will still praise Him—my Savior and my God.
  • Ps 77:7-9 : 7 I remember my song in the night; I meditate with my heart, and my spirit searches diligently. 8 Will the Lord reject forever and never again show His favor? 9 Has His mercy ceased forever? Has His promise come to an end for all generations? 10 Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has He in anger shut up His compassion? Selah.
  • Prov 1:20-21 : 20 Wisdom cries aloud in the streets; in the public squares, she raises her voice. 21 At the head of the noisy streets, she calls out; at the city gates, she makes her speech.
  • Prov 8:2-3 : 2 On the heights along the way, at the crossroads, she takes her stand. 3 Beside the gates leading into the city, at the entrances, she cries out.
  • Prov 8:34 : 34 Blessed is the one who listens to me, watching daily at my doors, waiting at the doorposts of my entrances.
  • Song 5:5 : 5 I arose to open for my beloved, and my hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the handles of the bolt.
  • Isa 64:7 : 7 But now, LORD, you are our Father. We are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hands.
  • Jer 5:1 : 1 Roam through the streets of Jerusalem, look and understand, search in her squares. If you find one person who acts justly and seeks truth, I will forgive the city.
  • Matt 26:40-41 : 40 Then He returned to His disciples and found them sleeping. "Couldn't you men keep watch with Me for one hour?" He asked Peter. 41 "Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak."
  • Luke 14:21-23 : 21 The servant came back and reported this to his master. Then the owner of the house became angry and ordered his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the town and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame.’ 22 ‘Sir,’ the servant said, ‘what you ordered has been done, and there is still room.’ 23 Then the master told his servant, ‘Go out to the highways and hedges and compel them to come in, so that my house will be full.’
  • John 1:6 : 6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
  • Rom 13:11 : 11 And do this, knowing the time, that the hour has already come for you to wake from sleep. For our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.
  • 1 Cor 15:34 : 34 Wake up righteously, and do not sin, for some are ignorant of God—I say this to your shame.
  • Eph 5:14 : 14 Therefore it says, "Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."

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    1On my bed at night, I sought the one my soul loves; I sought him, but I did not find him.

  • Song 3:3-6
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    3The watchmen who patrol the city found me. "Have you seen the one my soul loves?"

    4Scarcely had I passed them when I found the one my soul loves. I held him and would not let him go until I had brought him to my mother’s house, to the room of the one who conceived me.

    5I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles and the does of the field: do not awaken or arouse love until it pleases.

    6Who is this coming up from the wilderness like columns of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all the fragrant powders of the merchant?

  • Song 5:5-9
    5 verses
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    5I arose to open for my beloved, and my hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the handles of the bolt.

    6I opened to my beloved, but he had withdrawn and was gone. My soul failed when he spoke. I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he did not answer.

    7The watchmen who go about the city found me; they struck me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.

    8I charge you, daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, what will you tell him? Tell him that I am lovesick.

    9What makes your beloved better than another beloved, most beautiful among women? What makes your beloved better than another, that you should beg us so passionately?

  • Song 6:1-3
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    78%

    1Where has your beloved gone, O most beautiful among women? Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you?

    2My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to graze in the gardens and to gather lilies.

    3I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine; he grazes among the lilies.

  • Song 2:6-10
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    77%

    6His left hand is under my head, and his right hand embraces me.

    7I charge you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles and the does of the field, not to awaken or stir up love until it pleases.

    8The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes, leaping over the mountains, bounding over the hills.

    9My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Behold, he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, peering through the lattice.

    10My beloved spoke and said to me, 'Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.'

  • Song 1:7-8
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    7Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you graze your flock, where you rest your sheep at midday. Why should I be like a veiled woman beside the flocks of your companions?

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  • Prov 7:15
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    15'So I came out to meet you, to diligently seek your face, and I have found you.'

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    1I have entered my garden, my sister, my bride; I have gathered my myrrh with my spices. I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, friends, and drink; be intoxicated with love.

    2I was sleeping, but my heart was awake. I heard the sound of my beloved knocking: "Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my perfect one, for my head is drenched with dew and my hair with the dampness of the night."

    3I have taken off my tunic; how can I put it back on? I have washed my feet; how can I dirty them again?

  • Song 4:6
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    6Until the day breathes and the shadows flee, I will go to the mountain of myrrh and the hill of frankincense.

  • Song 7:10-12
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    10Your mouth is like the finest wine, flowing smoothly for my beloved, gliding over the lips of those who are asleep.

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    8Passing through the street near her corner, he took the path to her house.

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    13The fig tree ripens its early fruit; the blossoming vines spread their fragrance. Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.

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    1Oh, that you were like a brother to me, one who nursed at my mother's breasts! If I found you outside, I would kiss you, and no one would despise me.

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    1I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys.

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    13My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh resting between my breasts.

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    12Now in the street, now in the squares, at every corner, she lurks.

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  • Song 8:14
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    14Hurry, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices.

  • Song 8:3-4
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    3His left hand is under my head, and his right hand embraces me.

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    7When I went out to the city gate, and took my seat in the public square,

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    4He brought me to the banquet hall, and his banner over me is love.

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    2My voice cries out to God, and I will call aloud; my voice reaches God, and He listens to me.