Song of Solomon 3

1By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him.Cross-references: Job 23:8 · Ps 4:4 · Ps 6:6 · Ps 22:2 · Ps 63:6 · Ps 77:2 · +9 more

2I 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.Cross-references: Ps 22:1 · Ps 42:7 · Ps 43:2 · Ps 77:7 · Prov 1:20 · Prov 8:2 · +10 more

3The watchmen who go about the city found me; “Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”Cross-references: Song 5:7 · Isa 21:6 · Isa 21:11 · Isa 56:10 · Isa 62:6 · Ezek 3:17 · +3 more

4I 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.Cross-references: Gen 32:26 · Prov 4:13 · Prov 8:17 · Song 6:12 · Song 7:5 · Song 8:2 · +12 more

5I 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.Cross-references: Song 2:7 · Song 8:4 · Mic 4:8

6Who is this who comes up from the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all spices of the merchant?Cross-references: Ex 13:21 · Ex 30:34 · Deut 8:2 · Song 1:3 · Song 1:13 · Song 4:6 · +16 more

7Behold, it is Solomon’s carriage! Sixty mighty men are around it, of the mighty men of Israel.Cross-references: 1Sam 8:16 · 1Sam 14:52 · 1Sam 28:2 · 1Ki 9:22 · 1Ki 14:27 · 2Ki 6:17 · +3 more

8They all handle the sword, and are expert in war. Every man has his sword on his thigh, because of fear in the night.Cross-references: Neh 4:21 · Ps 45:3 · Ps 91:5 · Ps 149:5 · Isa 27:3 · Eph 6:16 · +1 more

9King Solomon made himself a carriage of the wood of Lebanon.Cross-references: 2Sam 23:5 · Song 3:7 · Rev 14:6

10He made its pillars of silver, its bottom of gold, its seat of purple, the middle of it being paved with love, from the daughters of Jerusalem.Cross-references: Ps 87:3 · Song 1:5 · Rom 5:8 · Eph 3:18 · 1Tim 3:15 · Rev 1:5 · +1 more

11Go out, 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.Cross-references: Ps 9:14 · Ps 48:11 · Song 1:5 · Song 2:7 · Song 7:11 · Song 8:5 · +24 more