By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but I found him not. Treasury of Scripture night Psalm 4:4 Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart on your bed, and be still. Selah. Psalm 6:6 I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears. Psalm 22:2 O my God, I cry in the day time, but you hear not; and in the night season, and am not silent. Psalm 63:6-8 When I remember you on my bed, and meditate on you in the night watches... Psalm 77:2-4 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted... Isaiah 26:9 With my soul have I desired you in the night; yes, with my spirit within me will I seek you early... him whom Songs 1:7 Tell me, O you whom my soul loves, where you feed, where you make your flock to rest at noon... Songs 5:8 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him, that I am sick of love. John 21:17 He said to him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, love you me? Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, Love you me?... 1 Peter 1:8 Whom having not seen, you love; in whom, though now you see him not, yet believing, you rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: i sought him Songs 5:6 I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spoke: I sought him... Job 23:8,9 Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him... Psalm 130:1,2 Out of the depths have I cried to you, O LORD... Isaiah 55:6 Seek you the LORD while he may be found, call you on him while he is near: Luke 13:24 Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say to you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
Context The Bride's Dream
1By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but I found him not. 2I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but I found him not. 3The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw you him whom my soul loves? 4It was but a little that I passed from them, but 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, and into the chamber of her that conceived me. 5I charge you, O you daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that you stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
Douay-Rheims Bible
In my bed by night I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, and found him not.
Darby Bible Translation
On my bed, in the nights, I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
King James Bible
By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
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!
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