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Sgs 3:2 — 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 sought him, but I found him not.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

will rise		Sgs 5:5; Isa 64:7; Jhn 1:6; Mat 26:40,41; Rom 13:11; 1Cr 15:34; Eph 5:14
the streets		Pro 1:20,21; Pro 8:2,3,34; Luk 14:21-23
I sought		Psa 22:1,2; Psa 42:7-9; Psa 43:2-5; Psa 77:7-10

Correlating Passages

will rise

	Sgs 5:5	I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped [with] myrrh, and my fingers [with] sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.
	Isa 64:7	And [there is] none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.
	Jhn 1:6	There was a man sent from God, whose name [was] John.
	Mat 26:40	And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour?
	Mat 26:41	Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed [is] willing, but the flesh [is] weak.
	Rom 13:11	And that, knowing the time, that now [it is] high time to awake out of sleep: for now [is] our salvation nearer than when we believed.
	1Cr 15:34	Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak [this] to your shame.
	Eph 5:14	Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.

the streets

	Pro 1:20	Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
	Pro 1:21	She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, [saying],
	Pro 8:2	She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths.
	Pro 8:3	She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors.
	Pro 8:34	Blessed [is] the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
	Luk 14:21	So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.
	Luk 14:22	And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room.
	Luk 14:23	And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel [them] to come in, that my house may be filled.

I sought

	Psa 22:1	[[To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David.]] My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? [why art thou so] far from helping me, [and from] the words of my roaring?
	Psa 22:2	O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
	Psa 42:7	Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
	Psa 42:8	[Yet] the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song [shall be] with me, [and] my prayer unto the God of my life.
	Psa 42:9	I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
	Psa 43:2	For thou [art] the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
	Psa 43:3	O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
	Psa 43:4	Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.
	Psa 43:5	Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, [who is] the health of my countenance, and my God.
	Psa 77:7	Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?
	Psa 77:8	Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth [his] promise fail for evermore?
	Psa 77:9	Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.
	Psa 77:10	And I said, This [is] my infirmity: [but I will remember] the years of the right hand of the most High.

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Scott, Thomas. "Song of Songs 3:2," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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