Song of Songs 3:1

World English Bible (2000)

By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn't find him.

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  • Song 5:6 : 6 I opened to my beloved; but my beloved left; and had gone away. My heart went out when he spoke. I looked for him, but I didn't find him. I called him, but he didn't answer.
  • Song 1:7 : 7 Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you graze your flock, where you rest them at noon; For why should I be as one who is veiled beside the flocks of your companions? Lover
  • Isa 26:9 : 9 With my soul have I desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me will I seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
  • Isa 55:6 : 6 Seek Yahweh while he may be found; call you on him while he is near:
  • Luke 13:24 : 24 "Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.
  • John 21:17 : 17 He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?" Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, "Do you have affection for me?" He said to him, "Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you." Jesus said to him, "Feed my sheep.
  • 1 Pet 1:8 : 8 whom not having known you love; in whom, though now you don't see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and full of glory--
  • Job 23:8-9 : 8 "If I go east, he is not there; if west, I can't find him; 9 He works to the north, but I can't see him. He turns south, but I can't catch a glimpse of him.
  • Ps 4:4 : 4 Stand in awe, and don't sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still. Selah.
  • Ps 6:6 : 6 I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.
  • Ps 22:2 : 2 My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don't answer; in the night season, and am not silent.
  • Ps 63:6-8 : 6 when I remember you on my bed, and think about you in the night watches. 7 For you have been my help. I will rejoice in the shadow of your wings. 8 My soul stays close to you. Your right hand holds me up.
  • Ps 77:2-4 : 2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn't get tired. My soul refused to be comforted. 3 I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah. 4 You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can't speak.
  • Ps 130:1-2 : 1 Out of the depths I have cried to you, Yahweh. 2 Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my petitions.
  • Song 5:8 : 8 I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, that you tell him that I am faint with love. Friends

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Song 3:2-6
    5 verses
    92%

    2 I will get up now, and go about the city; in the streets and in the squares I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn't find him.

    3 The watchmen who go about the city found me; "Have you seen him whom my soul loves?"

    4 I had scarcely passed from them, when 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, into the room of her who conceived me.

    5 I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires.

    6 Who is this who comes up from the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all spices of the merchant?

  • Song 5:6-9
    4 verses
    83%

    6 I opened to my beloved; but my beloved left; and had gone away. My heart went out when he spoke. I looked for him, but I didn't find him. I called him, but he didn't answer.

    7 The watchmen who go about the city found me. They beat me. They bruised me. The keepers of the walls took my cloak away from me.

    8 I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, that you tell him that I am faint with love. Friends

    9 How is your beloved better than another beloved, you fairest among women? How is your beloved better than another beloved, that you do so adjure us? Beloved

  • Song 6:1-3
    3 verses
    77%

    1 Where has your beloved gone, you fairest among women? Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you? Beloved

    2 My beloved has gone down to 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 browses among the lilies,

  • Prov 7:15
    76%

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

  • Song 5:2-3
    2 verses
    76%

    2 I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: "Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my hair with the dampness of the night."

    3 I have taken off my robe. Indeed, must I put it on? I have washed my feet. Indeed, must I soil them?

  • Song 1:7
    75%

    7 Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you graze your flock, where you rest them at noon; For why should I be as one who is veiled beside the flocks of your companions? Lover

  • Ps 77:2
    74%

    2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn't get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.

  • Song 1:13-14
    2 verses
    73%

    13 My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh, that lies between my breasts.

    14 My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms from the vineyards of En Gedi. Lover

  • Ps 63:6
    73%

    6 when I remember you on my bed, and think about you in the night watches.

  • Song 7:10-12
    3 verses
    73%

    10 I am my beloved's. His desire is toward me.

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

    12 Let's go early up to the vineyards. Let's see whether the vine has budded, its blossom is open, and the pomegranates are in flower. There I will give you my love.

  • Song 2:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    9 My beloved is like a roe or a young hart. Behold, he stands behind our wall! He looks in at the windows. He glances through the lattice.

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

  • Isa 26:9
    72%

    9 With my soul have I desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me will I seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

  • Eccl 7:28
    72%

    28 which my soul still seeks; but I have not found. One man among a thousand have I found; but I have not found a woman among all those.

  • Song 4:6
    72%

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

  • Ps 132:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

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

    4 I will not give sleep to my eyes, or slumber to my eyelids;

  • Song 8:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

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

    4 I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires. Friends

  • Ps 63:1
    71%

    1 God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.

  • Song 2:6
    71%

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

  • Ps 77:6
    71%

    6 I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my spirit diligently inquires:

  • Prov 7:17-18
    2 verses
    71%

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

    18 Come, let's take our fill of loving until the morning. Let's solace ourselves with loving.

  • Ps 6:6
    71%

    6 I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.

  • Song 8:1
    70%

    1 Oh that you were like my brother, who nursed from the breasts of my mother! If I found you outside, I would kiss you; yes, and no one would despise me.

  • Song 2:17
    70%

    17 Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be like a roe or a young hart on the mountains of Bether.

  • Prov 7:8-9
    2 verses
    70%

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

    9 in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness.

  • Jer 31:26
    70%

    26 On this I awakened, and saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.

  • Prov 8:17
    70%

    17 I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.

  • Job 23:3
    70%

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

  • Ps 27:8
    70%

    8 When you said, "Seek my face," my heart said to you, "I will seek your face, Yahweh."

  • Song 1:4
    69%

    4 Take me away with you. Let us hurry. The king has brought me into his rooms. Friends We will be glad and rejoice in you. We will praise your love more than wine! Beloved They are right to love you.

  • Song 2:4
    69%

    4 He brought me to the banquet hall. His banner over me is love.

  • Ps 119:10
    69%

    10 With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don't let me wander from your commandments.

  • Job 30:17
    69%

    17 In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest.