Song of Songs 3:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but I did not find him.

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  • Ps 22:1-2 : 1 My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning? 2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but You do not hear; and in the night season, and am not silent.
  • Ps 42:7-9 : 7 Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls: all Your waves and billows have gone over me. 8 Yet the LORD will command His lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night His song shall be with me, a prayer to the God of my life. 9 I will say to God my rock, Why have You forgotten me? why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
  • Ps 43:2-5 : 2 For you are the God of my strength; why do you cast me off? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? 3 O send out your light and your truth; let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy hill and to your tabernacles. 4 Then will I go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy; yes, upon the harp I will praise you, O God my God. 5 Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
  • Ps 77:7-9 : 7 Will the Lord cast off forever? and will He be favorable no more? 8 Is His mercy completely gone forever? Does His promise fail forevermore? 9 Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has He in anger shut up His tender mercies? Selah. 10 And I said, This is my infirmity; but I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High.
  • Prov 1:20-21 : 20 Wisdom cries out outside; she raises her voice in the streets; 21 She cries out in the chief places of concourse, at the openings of the gates; she speaks her words in the city, saying,
  • Prov 8:2-3 : 2 She stands on the top of high places, by the way where the paths meet. 3 She cries at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the entrance of the doors.
  • Prov 8:34 : 34 Blessed is the one who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
  • Song 5:5 : 5 I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet-smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.
  • Isa 64:7 : 7 And there is none who calls upon your name, who stirs up himself to take hold of you: for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us, because of our iniquities.
  • Jer 5:1 : 1 Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if you can find a man, if there is anyone who executes judgment, who seeks the truth; and I will pardon it.
  • Matt 26:40-41 : 40 And he came to the disciples, and found them asleep, and said to Peter, What, could you not watch with me one hour? 41 Watch and pray, that you do not enter into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
  • Luke 14:21-23 : 21 So that servant came and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in here the poor, and the crippled, and the lame, and the blind. 22 And the servant said, Lord, it is done as you have commanded, and yet there is room. 23 And the lord said to the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.
  • 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 now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.
  • 1 Cor 15:34 : 34 Awake to righteousness and do not sin; for some do not have the knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.
  • Eph 5:14 : 14 Therefore he says, Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Song 3:1
    92%

    1By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but I did not find him.

  • Song 3:3-6
    4 verses
    91%

    3The watchmen who go about the city found me: to whom I said, Have you seen him whom my soul loves?

    4It was but a little that I passed from them, but 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, and into the chamber of her who conceived me.

    5I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles, and by the hinds of the field, that you do not stir up nor awaken my love until he pleases.

    6Who is this coming out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all the powders of the merchant?

  • Song 5:5-9
    5 verses
    83%

    5I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet-smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.

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

    7The watchmen that went 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, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him I am lovesick.

    9What is your beloved more than another beloved, O fairest among women? What is your beloved more than another beloved, that you so charge us?

  • Song 6:1-3
    3 verses
    78%

    1Where has your beloved gone, O most beautiful among women? Where has your beloved turned aside? 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
    5 verses
    77%

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

    7I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles and by the does of the field, that you not stir up nor awaken my love until he pleases.

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

    9My beloved is like a gazelle or a young deer. Behold, he stands behind our wall, he looks forth at the windows, showing himself through the lattice.

    10My beloved spoke and said to me, 'Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.'

  • Song 1:7-8
    2 verses
    76%

    7Tell me, O you whom my soul loves, where you feed, where you make your flock to rest at noon. Why should I be like one who turns aside by the flocks of your companions?

    8If you do not know, O fairest among women, follow the trail of the flock, and feed your young goats beside the shepherds' tents.

  • Prov 7:15
    76%

    15So I came out to meet you, diligently to seek your face, and I have found you.

  • Song 5:1-3
    3 verses
    76%

    1I have come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends; drink, yes, drink abundantly, O beloved.

    2I sleep, but my heart wakes: it is the voice of my beloved that knocks, 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.

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

  • Song 4:6
    75%

    6Until the day breaks, and the shadows flee away, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.

  • Song 7:10-12
    3 verses
    74%

    10I am my beloved's, and his desire is for me.

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

    12Let us rise early to the vineyards, let us see if the vine has flourished, if the tender grapes appear, and the pomegranates blossom. There I will give you my love.

  • Prov 7:8
    73%

    8Passing through the street near her corner, and he went the way to her house,

  • Song 2:16-17
    2 verses
    72%

    16My beloved is mine, and I am his; he feeds among the lilies.

    17Until the day breaks and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young deer upon the mountains of Bether.

  • Song 1:4
    71%

    4Draw me, we will run after you; the king has brought me into his chambers. We will be glad and rejoice in you, we will remember your love more than wine; the upright love you.

  • Song 2:13-14
    2 verses
    71%

    13The fig tree puts forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grapes give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.

    14O my dove, in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the cliff, let me see your face, let me hear your voice; for sweet is your voice, and your countenance is lovely.

  • Song 8:1
    70%

    1Oh, that you were like my brother, who nursed at my mother's breasts! When I find you outside, I would kiss you, and I would not be despised.

  • Song 2:1
    70%

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

  • Song 1:13
    70%

    13A bundle of myrrh is my beloved to me; he shall lie all night between my breasts.

  • Prov 7:12
    70%

    12Sometimes she is outside, now in the streets, and lies in wait at every corner.

  • Song 6:11-12
    2 verses
    70%

    11I went down to the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine had flourished, and the pomegranates had budded.

    12Before I was aware, my soul set me among the chariots of Amminadib.

  • Song 8:14
    70%

    14Make haste, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young deer on the mountains of spices.

  • Song 8:3-4
    2 verses
    70%

    3His left hand would be under my head, and his right hand would embrace me.

    4I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, do not stir up or awaken my love until he pleases.

  • Job 29:7
    70%

    7When I went out to the gate of the city, when I took my seat in the square!

  • Song 2:4
    69%

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

  • Prov 7:18
    69%

    18Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning; let us delight ourselves with love.

  • Prov 9:3
    69%

    3She has sent out her maidens: she cries out on the highest places of the city,

  • Song 1:2
    69%

    2Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for your love is better than wine.

  • Lam 1:19
    69%

    19I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and my elders have died in the city, while they sought food to relieve their souls.

  • Ps 77:2
    69%

    2In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord; my hand was stretched out in the night and did not rest; my soul refused to be comforted.