Song of Solomon 3:2 “I will arise now and go about the city, through the streets and square…”

Song of Solomon 3:2

I will arise now and go about the city, through the streets and squares. I will seek the one I love. So I sought him but did not find him.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

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.

American Standard Version

I said, 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.

Geneva Bible 1599

I will rise therefore nowe, and goe about in the citie, by the streetes and by the open places, and wil seeke him that my soule loueth: I sought him, but I found him not.

Darby Translation

I will rise now, and go about the city; In the streets and in the broadways Will I seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

Young's Literal Translation

— 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.

Bible in Basic English

I will get up now and go about the town, in the streets and in the wide ways I will go after him who is the love of my soul: I went after him, but I did not see him.

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Cross references

“will rise”

Romans 13:11 Ephesians 5:14 Song of Solomon 5:5 Isaiah 64:7 John 1:6 1 Corinthians 15:34

Romans 13:11 · BSB

And do this, understanding the occasion. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, for our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.

Ephesians 5:14 · BSB

So it is said: “Wake up, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

Song of Solomon 5:5 · BSB

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

Isaiah 64:7 · BSB

No one calls on Your name or strives to take hold of You. For You have hidden Your face from us and delivered us into the hand of our iniquity.

John 1:6 · BSB

There came a man who was sent from God. His name was John.

1 Corinthians 15:34 · BSB

Sober up as you ought, and stop sinning; for some of you are ignorant of God. I say this to your shame.

“the streets”

Proverbs 8:34 Luke 14:21–23 Proverbs 1:20 Proverbs 1:21 Proverbs 8:2 Proverbs 8:3

Proverbs 8:34 · BSB

Blessed is the man who listens to me, watching daily at my doors, waiting at the posts of my doorway.

Luke 14:21–23 · BSB

The servant returned and reported all this to his master. Then the owner of the house became angry and said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the city, and bring in the poor, the crippled, th…

Proverbs 1:20 · BSB

Wisdom calls out in the street, she lifts her voice in the square;

Proverbs 1:21 · BSB

in the main concourse she cries aloud, at the city gates she makes her speech:

Proverbs 8:2 · BSB

On the heights overlooking the road, at the crossroads she takes her stand.

Proverbs 8:3 · BSB

Beside the gates to the city, at the entrances she cries out:

“I sought”

Psalm 42:7–9 Psalm 43:2–5 Psalm 77:7–10 Psalm 22:1 Psalm 22:2

Psalm 42:7–9 · BSB

Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and waves have rolled over me.

Psalm 43:2–5 · BSB

For You are the God of my refuge. Why have You rejected me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?

Psalm 77:7–10 · BSB

“Will the Lord spurn us forever and never show His favor again?

Psalm 22:1 · BSB

My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from saving me, so far from my words of groaning?

Psalm 22:2 · BSB

I cry out by day, O my God, but You do not answer, and by night, but I have no rest.

Also

Jeremiah 5:1

Jeremiah 5:1 · BSB

“Go up and down the streets of Jerusalem. Look now and take note; search her squares. If you can find a single person, anyone who acts justly, anyone who seeks the truth, then I will forgive the city.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1On my bed at night I sought the one I love; I sought him, but did not find him.

3I encountered the watchmen on their rounds of the city: “Have you seen the one I love?”

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