Song of Songs 3:1

On her bed at night she seeks her beloved but does not find him. It pictures the distress of love when the beloved seems absent.

Cross-references · 15

• 1 Pet 1:8whom not having known you love; in whom, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and full of glory —
• Song 1:7Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you graze your flock, where you rest them at noon; For why should I be as one who is veiled beside the flocks of your companions?
• Song 5:6I opened to my beloved; but my beloved left; and had gone away. My heart went out when he spoke. I looked for him, but I didn’t find him. I called him, but he didn’t answer.
• Isa 26:9With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me will I seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
• Isa 55:6Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.
• Song 5:8I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, that you tell him that I am faint with love.
• Ps 22:2My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer; in the night season, and am not silent.
• Ps 130:1–2A Song of Ascents. Out of the depths I have cried to you, Yahweh.
• Ps 63:6–8when I remember you on my bed, and think about you in the night watches.
• John 21:17He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?” Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, “Do you have affection for me?” He said to him, “Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.
• Ps 77:2–4In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn’t get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.
• Luke 13:24“Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.
• Ps 6:6I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.
• Job 23:8–9“If I go east, he is not there; if west, I can’t find him;
• Ps 4:4Stand in awe, and don’t sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still. Selah.

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