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Song of Solomon 3:4
Song of Solomon 3:4 is verse 4 of Song of Solomon chapter 3, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
I had just passed them when I found the one I love. I held him and would not let go until I had brought him to my mother’s house, to the chamber of the one who conceived me.
King James Version
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.
World English Bible
I 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.
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Song of Solomon 3:2–6 · Berean Standard Bible
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.
3 I encountered the watchmen on their rounds of the city: “Have you seen the one I love?”
4 I had just passed them when I found the one I love. I held him and would not let go until I had brought him to my mother’s house, to the chamber of the one who conceived me.
5 O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you by the gazelles and does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until the time is right.
6 Who is this coming up from the wilderness like a column of smoke, scented with myrrh and frankincense from all the spices of the merchant?
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Song of Solomon 6:12Before I realized it, my desire had set me among the royal chariots of my people.
Proverbs 8:17I love those who love me, and those who seek me early shall find me.
Isaiah 45:19I have not spoken in secret, from a place in a land of darkness. I did not say to the descendants of Jacob, ‘Seek Me in a wasteland.’ I, the LORD, speak the truth; I say what is right.
Isaiah 55:6Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.
Isaiah 55:7Let the wicked man forsake his own way and the unrighteous man his own thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon.
Jeremiah 29:13You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.
Lamentations 3:25The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.
Matthew 7:7Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.
Song of Solomon 7:5Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel, the hair of your head like purple threads; the king is captured in your tresses.
Genesis 32:26Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.” But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
Proverbs 4:13Hold on to instruction; do not let go. Guard it, for it is your life.
Hosea 12:3In the womb he grasped his brother’s heel, and in his vigor he wrestled with God.
Hosea 12:4Yes, he struggled with the angel and prevailed; he wept and sought His favor; he found Him at Bethel and spoke with Him there —
Matthew 28:9Suddenly Jesus met them and said, “Greetings!” They came to Him, grasped His feet, and worshiped Him.
John 20:16Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned and said to Him in Hebrew, “Rabboni!” (which means “Teacher”).
John 20:17“Do not cling to Me,” Jesus said, “for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go and tell My brothers, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, to My God and your God.’”
Revelation 3:11I am coming soon. Hold fast to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.
Revelation 3:12The one who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will never again leave it. Upon him I will write the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God (the new Jerusalem that comes down out of heaven from My God), and My new name.
Isaiah 49:14But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me; the Lord has forgotten me!”
Isaiah 49:15“Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the son of her womb? Even if she could forget, I will not forget you!
Isaiah 49:16Behold, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; your walls are ever before Me.
Isaiah 49:17Your builders hasten back; your destroyers and wreckers depart from you.
Isaiah 49:18Lift up your eyes and look around. They all gather together; they come to you. As surely as I live,” declares the LORD, “you will wear them all as jewelry and put them on like a bride.
Isaiah 54:1“Shout for joy, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth in song and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband,” says the LORD.
Isaiah 54:2“Enlarge the site of your tent, stretch out the curtains of your dwellings, do not hold back. Lengthen your ropes and drive your stakes in deep.
Isaiah 54:3For you will spread out to the right and left; your descendants will dispossess the nations and inhabit the desolate cities.
Galatians 4:26But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.