Song of Songs 3

Treated in 11 passages across the library.

  • 3:6 Who is this coming up from the desert like columns of smoke, fragrant with myrrh and frankincense, with every spice the merchants sell? 3
  • 3:11 Come out, women of Zion, and look at King Solomon, at the crown his mother placed on his head on his wedding day, the day his heart was glad. 3
  • 3:1 Night after night on my bed I looked for the one my soul loves; I looked for him but did not find him. 2
  • 3:2 I will get up now and go around the city, through the streets and the squares; I will search for the one my soul loves. I searched for him but did not find him. 2
  • 3:4 I had hardly passed them when I found the one my soul loves. I took hold of him and did not let go of him until I had brought him home to my mother's house, into the bedroom of the one who conceived me. 1

Open Word Bible

  1. Communion with God · John Owen

    Of communion with Christ in a conjugal relation, in its consequential affections cites Cant. iii. 1–5

    …Rom. viii. 26, 27 — The saints delight in Christ; this manifested Cant. ii. 7, viii. 6 — Cant. iii. 1–5, opened — Their delight in his servants and ordinances of worship for his sake. The…

  2. Communion with God · John Owen

    Of the way the saints hold communion with Christ as to personal grace cites Cant. iii. 11

    …— The conjugal relation between Christ and the saints, Cant. ii. 16; Isa. liv. 5, etc.; Cant. iii. 11, opened — The way of communion in conjugal relation, Hos. iii. 3; Cant. i. 15 — On the…

  3. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

    Part I. Concerning the nature of the affections and their importance in religion cites Cant. 3:1

    …that it hath unto thy judgments at all times.” So Psal. 73:25, and 143:6, 7, and 130:6. Cant. 3:1, 2, and 6:8. Such a holy desire and thirst of soul is mentioned, as one thing which…

  4. All Things for Good · Thomas Watson

    The worst things work for good to the godly cites Cant. iii. 2

    …was departed, the spouse pursues after Him, she seeks Him “in the streets of the city” (Cant. iii. 2). And not having found Him, she makes a hue and cry after Him. “Saw ye him whom my soul…

  5. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.2 The Second Commandment cites Cant 3: 2

    …with God, never rests till he has a part in him. ‘I will seek him whom my soul loveth.’ Cant 3: 2. How can they say they love God, who are not industrious in the use of means to obtain…

  6. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.4 The Fourth Commandment cites Cant 3: 4

    …often meets with God in the sanctuary, and can say, ‘I found him whom my soul loveth.’ Cant 3: 4. He is like Jonathan, who, when he had tasted the honey on the rod, had his eyes…

  7. A Short and Easy Method of Prayer · Jeanne Guyon

    Prayer and Sacrifice cites Cant. iii. 6

    …“Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense?” (Cant. iii. 6). Thus the soul rises up towards its God. But in order to this, it must suffer itself to…

  8. Union and Communion · Hudson Taylor

    Section III cites Cant. iii. 6

    The Joy of Unbroken Communion Cant. iii. 6-v.1 O Jesus, King most wonderful, Thou Conqueror renown’d. Thou sweetness most ineffable…

  9. Union and Communion · Hudson Taylor

    Section VI cites Cant. iii. 6

    …His name, her search was successful, and her communion was restored. The third section (Cant. iii. 6-v. 1) told of unbroken communion. Abiding in Christ, she was the sharer of His security…

  10. The Saint and His Saviour · Charles H. Spurgeon

    Love's Logic cites Song. iii. 11

    …of Sol. Song. d See his admirable Portions. e R. Erskine. f Sol. Song v. 10—16. g Sol. Song. iii. 11. h Owen. i See his Vital Christianity.

  11. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

    VIII. Nothing can certainly be determined concerning the nature of the affections, by this, that comforts and joys seem to follow awakenings and convictions of conscience, in a certain order cites Cant. 3:11

    …of Christ in the womb, Gal. 4:19. And therefore the Church is called Christ's mother, Cant. 3:11. And so is every particular believer, Matt. 12:49, 50. And the conception of Christ in…