KJV King James Version
By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Song of Solomon 3:1
By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
On my bed at night I sought the one I love; I sought him, but did not find him.
WEB World English Bible
By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him.
ASV American Standard Version
By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
On my couch by night, I sought him whom my soul hath loved; I sought him, and I found him not!
Surrounding context — Song of Solomon 3
1 By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
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.
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Cross-references
1 Peter 1:8Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see [him] not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:Song of Solomon 5:6I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, [and] was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.Song of Solomon 1:7Tell 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?Isaiah 26:9With 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.Isaiah 55:6Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:Psalm 130:1-2A Song of degrees. Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD.Song of Solomon 5:8I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I [am] sick of love.Psalm 22:2O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.Psalm 63:6-8When I remember thee upon my bed, [and] meditate on thee in the [night] watches.Job 23:8-9Behold, I go forward, but he [is] not [there]; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:Luke 13:24Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.Psalm 6:6I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.Psalm 77:2-4In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.John 21:17He 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.Psalm 4:4Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.
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