Song of Songs 3:2

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

-- Pray, let me rise, and go round the city, In the streets and in the broad places, I seek him whom my soul hath loved! -- I sought him, and I found him not.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 22:1-2 : 1 To the Overseer, on `The Hind of the Morning.' -- A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me? Far from my salvation, The words of my roaring? 2 My God, I call by day, and Thou answerest not, And by night, and there is no silence to me.
  • Ps 42:7-9 : 7 Deep unto deep is calling At the noise of Thy water-spouts, All Thy breakers and Thy billows passed over me. 8 By day Jehovah commandeth His kindness, And by night a song `is' with me, A prayer to the God of my life. 9 I say to God my rock, `Why hast Thou forgotten me? Why go I mourning in the oppression of an enemy?
  • Ps 43:2-5 : 2 For thou `art' the God of my strength. Why hast Thou cast me off? Why mourning do I go up and down, In the oppression of an enemy? 3 Send forth Thy light and Thy truth, They -- they lead me, they bring me in, Unto Thy holy hill, and unto Thy tabernacles. 4 And I go in unto the altar of God, Unto God, the joy of my rejoicing. And I thank Thee with a harp, O God, my God. 5 What! bowest thou thyself, O my soul? And what! art thou troubled within me? Wait for God, for still I confess Him, The salvation of my countenance, and my God!
  • Ps 77:7-9 : 7 To the ages doth the Lord cast off? Doth He add to be pleased no more? 8 Hath His kindness ceased for ever? The saying failed to all generations? 9 Hath God forgotten `His' favours? Hath He shut up in anger His mercies? Selah. 10 And I say: `My weakness is, The changes of the right hand of the Most High.'
  • Prov 1:20-21 : 20 Wisdom in an out-place crieth aloud, In broad places she giveth forth her voice, 21 At the head of the multitudes she calleth, In the openings of the gates, In the city her sayings she saith:
  • Prov 8:2-3 : 2 At the head of high places by the way, Between the paths she hath stood, 3 At the side of the gates, at the mouth of the city, The entrance of the openings, she crieth aloud,
  • Prov 8:34 : 34 O the happiness of the man hearkening to me, To watch at my doors day by day, To watch at the door-posts of my entrance.
  • Song 5:5 : 5 I rose to open to my beloved, And my hands dropped myrrh, Yea, my fingers flowing myrrh, On the handles of the lock.
  • Isa 64:7 : 7 And there is none calling in Thy name, Stirring up himself to lay hold on Thee, For Thou hast hid Thy face from us, And thou meltest us away by our iniquities.
  • Jer 5:1 : 1 Go to and fro in streets of Jerusalem, And see, I pray you, and know, And seek in her broad places, if ye find a man, If there be one doing judgment, seeking stedfastness -- Then am I propitious to her.
  • Matt 26:40-41 : 40 And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them sleeping, and he saith to Peter, `So! ye were not able one hour to watch with me! 41 watch, and pray, that ye may not enter into temptation: the spirit indeed is forward, but the flesh weak.'
  • Luke 14:21-23 : 21 `And that servant having come, told to his lord these things, then the master of the house, having been angry, said to his servant, Go forth quickly to the broad places and lanes of the city, and the poor, and maimed, and lame, and blind, bring in hither. 22 `And the servant said, Sir, it hath been done as thou didst command, and still there is room. 23 `And the lord said unto the servant, Go forth to the ways and hedges, and constrain to come in, that my house may be filled;
  • John 1:6 : 6 There came a man -- having been sent from God -- whose name `is' John,
  • Rom 13:11 : 11 And this, knowing the time, that for us, the hour already `is' to be aroused out of sleep, for now nearer `is' our salvation than when we did believe;
  • 1 Cor 15:34 : 34 awake up, as is right, and sin not; for certain have an ignorance of God; for shame to you I say `it'.
  • Eph 5:14 : 14 wherefore he saith, `Arouse thyself, thou who art sleeping, and arise out of the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 On my couch by night, I sought him whom my soul hath loved; I sought him, and I found him not!

  • Song 3:3-6
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    3 The watchmen have found me, (Who are going round about the city), `Him whom my soul have loved saw ye?'

    4 But a little I passed on from them, Till I found him whom my soul hath loved! I seized him, and let him not go, Till I brought him in unto the house of my mother -- And the chamber of her that conceived me.

    5 I have adjured you, daughters of Jerusalem, By the roes or by the hinds of the field, Stir not up nor wake the love till she please!

    6 Who `is' this coming up from the wilderness, Like palm-trees of smoke, Perfumed `with' myrrh and frankincense, From every powder of the merchant?

  • Song 5:5-9
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    5 I rose to open to my beloved, And my hands dropped myrrh, Yea, my fingers flowing myrrh, On the handles of the lock.

    6 I opened to my beloved, But my beloved withdrew -- he passed on, My soul went forth when he spake, I sought him, and found him not. I called him, and he answered me not.

    7 The watchmen who go round about the city, Found me, smote me, wounded me, Keepers of the walls lifted up my veil from off me.

    8 I have adjured you, daughters of Jerusalem, If ye find my beloved -- What do ye tell him? that I `am' sick with love!

    9 What `is' thy beloved above `any' beloved, O fair among women? What `is' thy beloved above `any' beloved, That thus thou hast adjured us?

  • Song 6:1-3
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    78%

    1 Whither hath thy beloved gone, O fair among women? Whither hath thy beloved turned, And we seek him with thee?

    2 My beloved went down to his garden, To the beds of the spice, To delight himself in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

    3 I `am' my beloved's, and my beloved `is' mine, Who is delighting himself among the lilies.

  • Song 2:6-10
    5 verses
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    6 His left hand `is' under my head, And his right doth embrace me.

    7 I have adjured you, daughters of Jerusalem, By the roes or by the hinds of the field, Stir not up nor wake the love till she please!

    8 The voice of my beloved! lo, this -- he is coming, Leaping on the mountains, skipping on the hills.

    9 My beloved `is' like to a roe, Or to a young one of the harts. Lo, this -- he is standing behind our wall, Looking from the windows, Blooming from the lattice.

    10 My beloved hath answered and said to me, `Rise up, my friend, my fair one, and come away,

  • Song 1:7-8
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    7 Declare to me, thou whom my soul hath loved, Where thou delightest, Where thou liest down at noon, For why am I as one veiled, By the ranks of thy companions?

    8 If thou knowest not, O fair among women, Get thee forth by the traces of the flock, And feed thy kids by the shepherds' dwellings!

  • 15 Therefore I have come forth to meet thee, To seek earnestly thy face, and I find thee.

  • Song 5:1-3
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    1 I have come in to my garden, my sister-spouse, I have plucked my myrrh with my spice, I have eaten my comb with my honey, I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends, drink, Yea, drink abundantly, O beloved ones!

    2 I am sleeping, but my heart waketh: The sound of my beloved knocking! `Open to me, my sister, my friend, My dove, my perfect one, For my head is filled `with' dew, My locks `with' drops of the night.'

    3 I have put off my coat, how do I put it on? I have washed my feet, how do I defile them?

  • 6 Till the day doth break forth, And the shadows have fled away, I will get me unto the mountain of myrrh, And unto the hill of frankincense.

  • Song 7:10-12
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    10 I `am' my beloved's, and on me `is' his desire.

    11 Come, my beloved, we go forth to the field,

    12 We lodge in the villages, we go early to the vineyards, We see if the vine hath flourished, The sweet smelling-flower hath opened. The pomegranates have blossomed, There do I give to thee my loves;

  • 8 Passing on in the street, near her corner, And the way `to' her house he doth step,

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    16 My beloved `is' mine, and I `am' his, Who is delighting among the lilies,

    17 Till the day doth break forth, And the shadows have fled away, Turn, be like, my beloved, To a roe, or to a young one of the harts, On the mountains of separation!

  • 4 Draw me: after thee we run, The king hath brought me into his inner chambers, We do joy and rejoice in thee, We mention thy loves more than wine, Uprightly they have loved thee!

  • Song 2:13-14
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    13 The fig-tree hath ripened her green figs, And the sweet-smelling vines have given forth fragrance, Rise, come, my friend, my fair one, yea, come away.

    14 My dove, in clefts of the rock, In a secret place of the ascent, Cause me to see thine appearance, Cause me to hear thy voice, For thy voice `is' sweet, and thy appearance comely.

  • 1 Who doth make thee as a brother to me, Sucking the breasts of my mother? I find thee without, I kiss thee, Yea, they do not despise me,

  • 1 As a lily among the thorns,

  • 13 A bundle of myrrh `is' my beloved to me, Between my breasts it lodgeth.

  • 12 Now in an out-place, now in broad places, And near every corner she lieth in wait) --

  • Song 6:11-12
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    11 Unto a garden of nuts I went down, To look on the buds of the valley, To see whither the vine had flourished, The pomegranates had blossomed --

    12 I knew not my soul, It made me -- chariots of my people Nadib.

  • 14 Or to a young one of the harts on mountains of spices!

  • Song 8:3-4
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    3 His left hand `is' under my head, And his right doth embrace me.

    4 I have adjured you, daughters of Jerusalem, How ye stir up, And how ye wake the love till she please!

  • 7 When I go out to the gate by the city, In a broad place I prepare my seat.

  • 4 He hath brought me in unto a house of wine, And his banner over me `is' love,

  • 18 Come, we are filled `with' loves till the morning, We delight ourselves in loves.

  • 3 She hath sent forth her damsels, She crieth on the tops of the high places of the city:

  • 2 Let him kiss me with kisses of his mouth, For better `are' thy loves than wine.

  • 19 I called for my lovers, they -- they have deceived me, My priests and my elders in the city have expired; When they have sought food for themselves, Then they give back their soul.

  • 2 In a day of my distress the Lord I sought, My hand by night hath been spread out, And it doth not cease, My soul hath refused to be comforted.