Song of Songs 3:2

Geneva Bible (1560)

I will rise therefore nowe, and goe about in the citie, by the streetes and by the open places, and wil seeke him that my soule loueth: I sought him, but I found him not.

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  • Ps 22:1-2 : 1 To him that excelleth vpon Aiieleth Hasshahar. A Psalme of Dauid. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me, and art so farre from mine health, and from the wordes of my roaring? 2 O my God, I crie by day, but thou hearest not, and by night, but haue no audience.
  • Ps 42:7-9 : 7 One deepe calleth another deepe by the noyse of thy water spoutes: all thy waues and thy floods are gone ouer me. 8 The Lorde will graunt his louing kindenesse in the day, and in the night shall I sing of him, euen a prayer vnto the God of my life. 9 I wil say vnto God, which is my rocke, Why hast thou forgotten mee? why goe I mourning, when the enemie oppresseth me?
  • Ps 43:2-5 : 2 For thou art the God of my strength: why hast thou put me away? why goe I so mourning, when the enemie oppresseth me? 3 Sende thy light and thy trueth: let them leade mee: let them bring mee vnto thine holy Mountaine and to thy Tabernacles. 4 Then wil I go vnto the altar of God, euen vnto the God of my ioy & gladnes: and vpon the harpe wil I giue thanks vnto thee, O God, my God. 5 Why art thou cast downe, my soule? and why art thou disquieted within mee? waite on God: for I will yet giue him thankes, he is my present helpe, and my God.
  • Ps 77:7-9 : 7 Will the Lorde absent him selfe for euer? and will he shewe no more fauour? 8 Is his mercie cleane gone for euer? doeth his promes faile for euermore? 9 Hath God forgotten to be mercifull? hath he shut vp his teder mercies in displeasure? Selah. 10 And I sayde, This is my death: yet I remembred the yeeres of the right hand of the most High.
  • Prov 1:20-21 : 20 Wisdome cryeth without: she vttereth her voyce in the streetes. 21 She calleth in the hye streete, among the prease in the entrings of the gates, and vttereth her wordes in the citie, saying,
  • Prov 8:2-3 : 2 She standeth in the top of the high places by the way in the place of the paths. 3 She cryeth besides the gates before the citie at the entrie of the doores,
  • Prov 8:34 : 34 Blessed is the man that heareth mee, watching dayly at my gates, & giuing attendance at the postes of my doores.
  • Song 5:5 : 5 I rose vp to open to my welbeloued, and mine hands did drop downe myrrhe, and my fingers pure myrrhe vpon the handels of the barre.
  • Isa 64:7 : 7 And there is none that calleth vpon thy Name, neither that stirreth vp himselfe to take holde of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from vs, and hast consumed vs because of our iniquities.
  • Jer 5:1 : 1 Rvnne to and fro by the streetes of Ierusalem, and beholde nowe, and knowe, and inquire in the open places thereof, if ye can finde a man, or if there be any that executeth iudgement, and seeketh the trueth, and I will spare it.
  • Matt 26:40-41 : 40 After, hee came vnto the disciples, and founde them a sleepe, and sayde to Peter, What? Coulde yee not watch with me one houre? 41 Watch, and praie, that yee enter not into tentation: the spirit in deede is readie, but the flesh is weake.
  • Luke 14:21-23 : 21 So that seruaunt returned, and shewed his master these thinges. Then was the good man of the house angrie, and said to his seruant, Goe out quickely into the streetes and lanes of the citie, and bring in hither the poore, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blinde. 22 And the seruaunt saide, Lorde, it is done as thou hast commaunded, and yet there is roome. 23 Then the master sayd to the seruaunt, Goe out into the hie wayes, and hedges, and compell them to come in, that mine house may bee filled.
  • John 1:6 : 6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was Iohn.
  • Rom 13:11 : 11 And that, considering the season, that it is now time that we should arise fro sleepe: for now is our saluation neerer, then when we beleeued it.
  • 1 Cor 15:34 : 34 Awake to liue righteously, and sinne not: for some haue not ye knowledge of God, I speake this to your shame.
  • Eph 5:14 : 14 Wherefore hee sayeth, Awake thou that sleepest, and stande vp from the deade, and Christ shall giue thee light.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 In my bed by night I sought him that my soule loued: I sought him, but I found him not.

  • Song 3:3-6
    4 verses
    91%

    3 The watchmen that went about the citie, found mee: to whome I said, Haue you seene him, whome my soule loueth?

    4 When I had past a litle from them, then I found him whom my soule loued: I tooke holde on him and left him not, till I had brought him vnto my mothers house into the chamber of her that conceiued me.

    5 I charge you, O daughters of Ierusalem, by the roes and by the hindes of the fielde, that ye stirre not vp, nor waken my loue vntill she please.

    6 Who is shee that commeth vp out of the wildernes like pillars of smoke perfumed with myrrhe and incense, and with all the spices of the marchant?

  • Song 5:5-9
    5 verses
    83%

    5 I rose vp to open to my welbeloued, and mine hands did drop downe myrrhe, and my fingers pure myrrhe vpon the handels of the barre.

    6 I opened to my welbeloued: but my welbeloued was gone, and past: mine heart was gone when hee did speake: I sought him, but I coulde not finde him: I called him, but hee answered mee not.

    7 The watchmen that went about the citie, founde me: they smote me and wounded me: the watchmen of the walles tooke away my vaile from me.

    8 I charge you, O daughters of Ierusalem, if you finde my welbeloued, that you tell him that I am sicke of loue.

    9 O the fairest among women, what is thy welbeloued more then other welbeloued? what is thy welbeloued more then another louer, that thou doest so charge vs?

  • Song 6:1-3
    3 verses
    78%

    1 O the fairest among women, whither is thy welbeloued gone? whither is thy welbeloued turned aside, that we may seeke him with thee?

    2 My welbeloued is gone downe into his garden to the beds of spices, to feede in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

    3 I am my welbeloueds, and my welbeloued is mine, who feedeth among the lilies.

  • Song 2:6-10
    5 verses
    77%

    6 His left hande is vnder mine head, and his right hand doeth imbrace me.

    7 I charge you, O daughters of Ierusalem, by the roes and by the hindes of the fielde, that ye stirre not vp, nor waken my loue, vntill she please.

    8 It is the voyce of my welbeloued: beholde, hee commeth leaping by the mountaines, and skipping by the hilles.

    9 My welbeloued is like a roe, or a yong hart: loe, he standeth behinde our wall, looking forth of the windowes, shewing him selfe through the grates.

    10 My welbeloued spake and said vnto me, Arise, my loue, my faire one, and come thy way.

  • Song 1:7-8
    2 verses
    76%

    7 Shewe me, O thou, whome my soule loueth, where thou feedest, where thou liest at noone: for why should I be as she that turneth aside to the flockes of thy companions?

    8 If thou knowe not, O thou the fairest among women, get thee foorth by the steps of the flocke, and feede thy kiddes by the tents of the shepheards.

  • 15 Therefore came I forth to meete thee, that I might seeke thy face: and I haue found thee.

  • Song 5:1-3
    3 verses
    76%

    1 I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I gathered my myrrhe with my spice: I ate mine hony combe with mine hony, I dranke my wine with my milke: eate, O friends, drinke, and make you mery, O welbeloued.

    2 I sleepe, but mine heart waketh, it is the voyce of my welbeloued that knocketh, saying, Open vnto mee, my sister, my loue, my doue, my vndefiled: for mine head is full of dewe, and my lockes with the droppes of the night.

    3 I haue put off my coate, howe shall I put it on? I haue washed my feete, howe shall I defile them?

  • 6 Vntill the day breake, and the shadowes flie away, I wil go into the mountaine of myrrhe and to the mountaine of incense.

  • Song 7:10-12
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    74%

    10 I am my welbeloueds, and his desire is toward mee.

    11 Come, my welbeloued, let vs go foorth into the fielde: let vs remaine in the villages.

    12 Let vs get vp early to the vines, let vs see if the vine florish, whether it hath budded the small grape, or whether the pomegranates florish: there will I giue thee my loue.

  • 8 Who passed through the streete by her corner, and went toward her house,

  • Song 2:16-17
    2 verses
    72%

    16 My welbeloued is mine, and I am his: hee feedeth among the lilies,

    17 Vntil the day breake, and the shadowes flee away: returne, my welbeloued, and be like a roe, or a yong hart vpon the mountaines of Bether.

  • 4 Drawe me: we will runne after thee: the King hath brought me into his chabers: we will reioyce and be glad in thee: we will remember thy loue more then wine: the righteous do loue thee.

  • Song 2:13-14
    2 verses
    71%

    13 The figtree hath brought foorth her yong figges: and the vines with their small grapes haue cast a sauour: arise my loue, my faire one, and come away.

    14 My doue, that art in the holes of ye rocke, in the secret places of the staires, shewe mee thy sight, let mee heare thy voyce: for thy voyce is sweete, and thy sight comely.

  • 1 Oh that thou werest as my brother that sucked the brestes of my mother: I would finde thee without, I would kisse thee, then they should not despise thee.

  • 1 I am the rose of the fielde, and the lilie of the valleys.

  • 13 My welbeloued is as a bundle of myrrhe vnto me: he shall lie betweene my breasts.

  • 12 Nowe she is without, nowe in the streetes, and lyeth in waite at euery corner)

  • Song 6:11-12
    2 verses
    70%

    11 I went downe to the garden of nuttes, to see the fruites of the valley, to see if the vine budded, and if the pomegranates flourished.

    12 I knewe nothing, my soule set me as the charets of my noble people.

  • 14 O my welbeloued, flee away, and be like vnto the roe, or to the yong harte vpon ye mountaines of spices.

  • Song 8:3-4
    2 verses
    70%

    3 His left hand shalbe vnder mine head, and his right hand shall embrace me.

    4 I charge you, O daughters of Ierusale, that you stir not vp, nor waken my loue, vntil she please.

  • 7 When I went out to the gate, euen to the iudgement seat, and when I caused them to prepare my seate in the streete.

  • 4 Hee brought mee into the wine cellar, and loue was his banner ouer me.

  • 18 Come, let vs take our fill of loue vntill the morning: let vs take our pleasure in daliance.

  • 3 She hath sent forth her maydens and cryeth vpon the highest places of the citie, saying,

  • 2 Let him kisse me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy loue is better then wine.

  • 19 I called for my louers, but they deceiued me: my Priestes and mine Elders perished in the citie while they sought their meate to refresh their soules.

  • 2 In the day of my trouble I sought ye Lord: my sore ranne and ceased not in the night: my soule refused comfort.