Song of Songs 3:4

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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  • Song 8:2 : 2 I would lead you, bringing you into my mother's house, who would instruct me. I would have you drink spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranate.
  • Prov 4:13 : 13 Take firm hold of instruction. Don't let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.
  • Prov 8:17 : 17 I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.
  • Song 6:12 : 12 Without realizing it, my desire set me with my royal people's chariots. Friends
  • Song 7:5 : 5 Your head on you is like Carmel. The hair of your head like purple. The king is held captive in its tresses.
  • Gen 32:26 : 26 The man said, "Let me go, for the day breaks." Jacob said, "I won't let you go, unless you bless me."
  • Isa 45:19 : 19 I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I didn't say to the seed of Jacob, 'Seek me in vain.' I, Yahweh, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right.
  • Isa 49:14-18 : 14 But Zion said, "Yahweh has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me." 15 "Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you! 16 Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me. 17 Your children make haste; your destroyers and those who made you waste shall go forth from you. 18 Lift up your eyes all around, and see: all these gather themselves together, and come to you. As I live," says Yahweh, "you shall surely clothe yourself with them all as with an ornament, and dress yourself with them, like a bride.
  • Isa 54:1-3 : 1 "Sing, barren, you who didn't bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you who did not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife," says Yahweh. 2 "Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of your habitations; don't spare: lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes. 3 For you shall spread out on the right hand and on the left; and your seed shall possess the nations, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
  • Isa 55:6-7 : 6 Seek Yahweh while he may be found; call you on him while he is near: 7 let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
  • Jer 29:13 : 13 You shall seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me with all your heart.
  • Lam 3:25 : 25 Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul that seeks him.
  • Hos 12:3-4 : 3 In the womb he took his brother by the heel; and in his manhood he contended with God. 4 Indeed, he struggled with the angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication to him. He found him at Bethel, and there he spoke with us,
  • Matt 7:7 : 7 "Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.
  • Matt 28:9 : 9 As they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, "Rejoice!" They came and took hold of his feet, and worshiped him.
  • John 20:16-17 : 16 Jesus said to her, "Mary." She turned and said to him, "Rabboni!" which is to say, "Teacher!" 17 Jesus said to her, "Don't hold me, for I haven't yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers, and tell them, 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"
  • Gal 4:26 : 26 But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
  • Rev 3:11-12 : 11 I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown. 12 He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will go out from there no more. I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my own new name.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Song 3:1-3
    3 verses
    89%

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

    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?"

  • Song 5:4-9
    6 verses
    81%

    4 My beloved thrust his hand in through the latch opening. My heart pounded for him.

    5 I rose up to open for my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the handles of the lock.

    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 8:1-5
    5 verses
    79%

    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.

    2 I would lead you, bringing you into my mother's house, who would instruct me. I would have you drink spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranate.

    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

    5 Who is this who comes up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? Under the apple tree I aroused you. There your mother conceived you. There she was in labor and bore you.

  • Song 3:5-6
    2 verses
    79%

    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 1:7-8
    2 verses
    78%

    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

    8 If you don't know, most beautiful among women, follow the tracks of the sheep. Graze your young goats beside the shepherds' tents.

  • Song 6:1-3
    3 verses
    78%

    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,

  • Song 2:3-10
    8 verses
    77%

    3 As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, his fruit was sweet to my taste.

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

    5 Strengthen me with raisins, refresh me with apples; For I am faint with love.

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

    7 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.

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

    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.

  • Song 7:10-12
    3 verses
    77%

    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 4:8-10
    3 verses
    76%

    8 Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, with me from Lebanon. Look from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir and Hermon, from the lions' dens, from the mountains of the leopards.

    9 You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride. You have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck.

    10 How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine! The fragrance of your perfumes than all kinds of spices!

  • Song 4:6
    76%

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

  • Song 1:13-14
    2 verses
    76%

    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

  • Song 1:4
    75%

    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 5:1-2
    2 verses
    75%

    1 I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Friends Eat, friends! Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved. Beloved

    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."

  • Song 2:16-17
    2 verses
    75%

    16 My beloved is mine, and I am his. He browses among the lilies.

    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.

  • Song 6:12
    74%

    12 Without realizing it, my desire set me with my royal people's chariots. Friends

  • Prov 4:3
    74%

    3 For I was a son to my father, tender and an only child in the sight of my mother.

  • Song 4:12
    73%

    12 A locked up garden is my sister, my bride; a locked up spring, a sealed fountain.

  • Song 1:2
    73%

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

  • Song 5:16
    73%

    16 His mouth is sweetness; yes, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, daughters of Jerusalem. Friends

  • Prov 7:15
    73%

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

  • Song 3:11
    72%

    11 Go forth, you daughters of Zion, and see king Solomon, with the crown with which his mother has crowned him, in the day of his weddings, in the day of the gladness of his heart. Lover