Song of Songs 3:1

Authorized King James Version (1611)

¶ By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

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Referenced Verses

  • Song 5:6 : 6 I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, [and] was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.
  • Song 1:7 : 7 ¶ Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest [thy flock] to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?
  • Isa 26:9 : 9 With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments [are] in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
  • Isa 55:6 : 6 ¶ Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:
  • Luke 13:24 : 24 ‹Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.›
  • John 21:17 : 17 He saith unto him the third time, ‹Simon,› [son] ‹of Jonas, lovest thou me?› Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, ‹Feed my sheep.›
  • 1 Pet 1:8 : 8 Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see [him] not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
  • Job 23:8-9 : 8 ¶ Behold, I go forward, but he [is] not [there]; and backward, but I cannot perceive him: 9 On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold [him]: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see [him]:
  • Ps 4:4 : 4 Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.
  • Ps 6:6 : 6 I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
  • Ps 22:2 : 2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
  • Ps 63:6-8 : 6 When I remember thee upon my bed, [and] meditate on thee in the [night] watches. 7 ¶ Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice. 8 My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me.
  • Ps 77:2-4 : 2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted. 3 I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah. 4 Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
  • Ps 130:1-2 : 1 ¶ A Song of degrees. Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD. 2 Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications.
  • Song 5:8 : 8 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I [am] sick of love.

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    92%

    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 into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.

    5 I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake [my] love, till he please.

    6 ¶ Who [is] this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?

  • Song 5:6-9
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    83%

    6 I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, [and] was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.

    7 The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.

    8 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I [am] sick of love.

    9 ¶ What [is] thy beloved more than [another] beloved, O thou fairest among women? what [is] thy beloved more than [another] beloved, that thou dost so charge us?

  • Song 6:1-3
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    77%

    1 ¶ Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? whither is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with thee.

    2 My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

    3 I [am] my beloved's, and my beloved [is] mine: he feedeth among the lilies.

  • Prov 7:15
    76%

    15 Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.

  • Song 5:2-3
    2 verses
    76%

    2 ¶ I sleep, but my heart waketh: [it is] the voice of my beloved that knocketh, [saying], Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, [and] my locks with the drops of the night.

    3 I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?

  • Song 1:7
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    7 ¶ Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest [thy flock] to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?

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    2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.

  • Song 1:13-14
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    73%

    13 A bundle of myrrh [is] my wellbeloved unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts.

    14 My beloved [is] unto me [as] a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi.

  • Ps 63:6
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    6 When I remember thee upon my bed, [and] meditate on thee in the [night] watches.

  • Song 7:10-12
    3 verses
    73%

    10 ¶ I [am] my beloved's, and his desire [is] toward me.

    11 Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.

    12 Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, [whether] the tender grape appear, [and] the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.

  • Song 2:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    9 My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice.

    10 My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.

  • Isa 26:9
    72%

    9 With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments [are] in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

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    28 Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.

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    3 Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed;

    4 I will not give sleep to mine eyes, [or] slumber to mine eyelids,

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    2 verses
    72%

    3 His left hand [should be] under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.

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    71%

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    71%

    6 His left hand [is] under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me.

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    71%

    6 I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.

  • Prov 7:17-18
    2 verses
    71%

    17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

    18 Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.

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    71%

    6 I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.

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    70%

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    17 Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.

  • Prov 7:8-9
    2 verses
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    8 Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,

    9 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:

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    70%

    26 Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.

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    70%

    17 I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.

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    3 Oh that I knew where I might find him! [that] I might come [even] to his seat!

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    70%

    8 [When thou saidst], Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.

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    4 Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee.

  • Song 2:4
    69%

    4 He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me [was] love.

  • Ps 119:10
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    10 ¶ With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.

  • Job 30:17
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    17 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.