What does Song of Solomon 3:3 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?"
THE CITY - One near the bride’s native home, possibly Shunem....
CHAPTER 3 The scene changes. The bride is now alone and in the darkness of the night. She is seeking her Beloved and is unable to find Him. Her heart is filled with the same love she exhibits in the...
A DREAM OF LOVE. The adjuration Song of Solomon 3:5 (_cf._ Song of Solomon 2:7) may have been added to adapt the passionate poem to the wedding week, in which there was much noisy revelling. For anoth...
BED. couch, not the same word as in Song of Solomon 1:16; Song of Solomon 3:7, &c. SOUGHT. still sought. MY SOUL. I myself....
Song of Solomon 3:1-5. A Dream Almost all commentators agree that we have here a dream narrated to some persons, in which the Shulammite seems to herself to have sought her lover in the city and fail...
DISCOURSE: 850 PERSEVERANCE CROWNED WITH SUCCESS Song of Solomon 3:1. _By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth; I sought him, but I found him not. I will rise now, and go about the city i...
TEXT 3:1-5 c. Relation of a Dream, Song of Solomon 3:1-4 d. Adjuration to Court Ladies, Song of Solomon 3:5 (second) 1. On my bed night after night I sought him whom my soul loves; I sought him...
The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth? WATCHMEN - ministers (; ; ); fit persons to consult (). FOUND ME - the general ministry of the Word...
NIGHT THOUGHTS AND AN INTERLUDE 1-4. There is a charming lightness of touch and quickness of movement in the story she tells, and it is all the more interesting for our having to supply the prosaic c...
A WONDERFUL SONG ABOUT LOVE SONG OF SONGS _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 3 THE WOMAN V1 At night, when I was on my bed, I looked for my man. He is the man that my heart loves. I looked for him, but...
THE WATCHMEN THAT GO ABOUT THE CITY. — “Henceforward until morning the streets are deserted and silent, with only here and there a company returning from a visit, with a servant bearing a lantern befo...
מְצָא֨וּנִי֙ הַ שֹּׁ֣מְרִ֔ים הַ סֹּבְבִ֖ים בָּ † עִ֑יר אֵ֛ת שֶׁ אָהֲבָ֥ה נַפְשִׁ֖י רְאִיתֶֽם׃...
TRUE LOVE TESTED SONG OF SOLOMON 1:1; Song of Solomon 2:1; Song of Solomon 3:1; Song of Solomon 4:1; Song of Solomon 5:1 THE poem opens with a scene in Solomon's palace. A country maiden has just been...
B. The Betrothal (Song of Solomon 2:8; Song of Solomon 3:1; Song of Solomon 4:1; Song of Solomon 5:1; Song of Solomon 6:1; Song of Solomon 7:1) I. Memories of the Wooing (Song of Solomon 2:8;...
The (c) watchmen that go about the city found me: [to whom I said], Saw ye him whom my soul loveth? (c) Which declares that we must seek to all of whom we hope to have any help....
_City. To prevent fires, &c. God will require the souls of the flock at the hands of his pastors._...
The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth? Very probably the watchmen here described, are meant for the ministers of the gospel of Christ; for so the...
In chapter 3 we have another attitude, another state of heart. She is alone and in darkness. She seeks her Beloved, but finds Him not. There is affection, but no joy. She questions the watchmen in Jer...
THE WATCHMEN THAT GO ABOUT THE CITY FOUND ME,.... By whom are meant the ministers of the Gospel; who are called watchmen, as the prophets were under the Old Testament, Isaiah 52:8; in allusion to watc...
The watchmen that go about the city found me: [to whom I said], Saw ye him whom my soul loveth? Ver. 3. _The watchmen that go about the city found me,_] _i.e., _ The angels, who are God's watchmen _a...
_The watchmen_ The ministers of Christ, and rulers of the church; _that go about the city_ To prevent disorders and dangers; _found me_ While they walked round about the city according to their duty:...
REVERSES AND NEW HOPES FOR THE CHURCH. The Church in Difficulties...
1-5 It was hard to the Old Testament church to find Christ in the ceremonial law; the watchmen of that church gave little assistance to those who sought after him. The night is a time of coldness, da...
THE WATCHMEN; the ministers of Christ, and rulers of the church, who are oft called watchmen, as ISAIAH 62:6 EZEKIEL 3:17, and elsewhere. THAT GO ABOUT THE CITY, to prevent disorders and dangers by ni...
Song of Solomon 3:3 watchmen H8104 (H8802) about H5437 (H8802) city H5892 found H4672 (H8804) seen H7200 (H8804) love H5315 H157 (H8804) watchmen - Song of Solomon 5:7; Isaiah 21:6-8,...
THE YOUNG MAIDEN DREAMS THAT SHE HAS LOST HER BELOVED (SONG OF SOLOMON 3:1). THE YOUNG MAIDEN'S FIRST NIGHTMARE. Song of Solomon 3:1 _ ‘By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loves, I sought...
Song of Solomon 3:1. _By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek h...
CONTENTS: The Bride seeking the favor of the Bridegroom. She calls upon all to admire Him. CHARACTERS: Solomon, Bride (Christ, Church). CONCLUSION: Those who are truly of the Bride, will evince the...
Song of Solomon 3:7. _Behold his bed, which is Solomon's;_ the palace where he sleeps, and where so many treasures of gold and works of art are preserved. _Threescore valiant men are about it._ His bo...
_I sought Him, but I found Him not._ HIDINGS OF GOD Prophetically these verses may be taken as delineating the sorrow of the first disciples at the departure of Christ from the earth. Between Easter...
SONG OF SOLOMON—NOTE ON SONG OF SOLOMON 3:1 The Shepherdess Dreams. The woman reports her dream, which comes from her eager anticipation of the consummation of their love. That this is a dream is sugg...
The Missing One Found Chapter 3 Song of Solomon 3:1 PROBABLY A DREAM RELATED BY SHULAMITE TO THE DAUGHTERS OF JERUSALEM By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth; I sought him, but I foun...
EXPOSITION SONG OF SOLOMON 3:1 BY NIGHT ON MY BED I SOUGHT HIM WHOM MY SOUL LOVETH: I SOUGHT HIM, BUT I FOUND HIM NOT. The bride is probably relating a dream. The time referred to is the close of the...
By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but found him not. I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I...
Ezekiel 3:17; Ezekiel 33:2; Hebrews 13:17; Isaiah 21:11; Isaiah 21:12; Isaiah 21:6; Isaiah 56:10; Isaiah 62:6; John 20:15; Song of Solo
The watch — men — The ministers of Christ, and rulers of the church. Go about — To prevent disorders and dangers. Him — She does not name him, because she thought it needless, as supposing a person of...