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Song of Songs 3 Geneva Bible (1599)

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Notes on this text (1)

1 In my bed by night I sought him that my soule loued: I sought him, but I found him not. 2 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. 3 The watchmen that went about the citie, found mee: to whome I said, Haue you seene him, whome my soule loueth? 4 When I had past a litle from them, then I found him whom my soule loued: I tooke holde on him and left him not, till I had brought him vnto my mothers house into the chamber of her that conceiued me. 5 I charge you, O daughters of Ierusalem, by the roes and by the hindes of the fielde, that ye stirre not vp, nor waken my loue vntill she please. 6 Who is shee that commeth vp out of the wildernes like pillars of smoke perfumed with myrrhe and incense, and with all the spices of the marchant? 7 Beholde his bed, which is Salomons: threescore strong men are round about it, of the valiant men of Israel. 8 They all handle the sworde, and are expert in warre, euery one hath his sword vpon his thigh for the feare by night. 9 King Salomon made himselfe a palace of the trees of Lebanon. 10 Hee made the pillars thereof of siluer, and the pauement thereof of gold, the hangings thereof of purple, whose middes was paued with the loue of the daughters of Ierusalem. 11 Come forth, ye daughters of Zion, and behold the King Salomon with the crowne, wherewith his mother crowned him in ye day of his mariage, and in the day of the gladnes of his heart.

Cross references (11)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 1 Peter 1:8; Song of Songs 5:6; Song of Songs 1:7; Isaiah 26:9; Isaiah 55:6
  2. 2 Ephesians 5:14; Romans 13:11; Isaiah 64:7; Proverbs 1:20–21; Psalm 22:1–2
  3. 3 Song of Songs 5:7; John 20:15; Ezekiel 33:2–9; Isaiah 21:11–12; Isaiah 21:6–8
  4. 4 Proverbs 8:17; Matthew 7:7; Song of Songs 6:12; Song of Songs 8:2; Proverbs 4:13
  5. 5 Song of Songs 2:7; Song of Songs 8:4; Micah 4:8
  6. 6 Song of Songs 8:5; Revelation 12:14; Song of Songs 4:6; Song of Songs 1:13; Isaiah 43:19
  7. 7 1 Kings 14:27; Hebrews 1:14; 2 Kings 6:17; 1 Samuel 28:2; Song of Songs 1:16
  8. 8 Psalm 45:3; Ephesians 6:16–18; Psalm 149:5–9; Isaiah 27:3; Nehemiah 4:21–22
  9. 9 Song of Songs 3:7; 2 Samuel 23:5; Revelation 14:6
  10. 10 Romans 5:8; Revelation 3:12; Ephesians 3:18–19; Psalm 87:3; Song of Songs 1:5
  11. 11 Isaiah 62:5; Jeremiah 2:2; Hosea 2:19–20; Psalm 9:14; Revelation 1:7

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Quotes verse 3:11 Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures (Lecture XIII)

    … proclaimed by soldiers; and Jesus also must in a figure be crowned by soldiers; so that for this cause the Scripture says in the Canticles, Go forth, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, and look upon King Solomon in the crown wherewith His mother crowned Him.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)

  2. Quotes verse 3:1 Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures (Lecture XIV)

    On my bed I sought Him by night, I sought Him, and I found Him not.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)

  3. Quotes verse 3:3 Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures (Lecture XIV)

    It was but a little that I passed from them (that is, from the two Angels), until I found Him Whom my soul loved. I held Him, and would not let Him go.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)