Song of Songs 3

Treated in 8 passages across the library.

The verses these writers stop at

  • 3:6 Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness Like pillars of smoke, Perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, With all powders of the merchant? 3
  • 3:2 [I said], 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. 2
  • 3:1 By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. 1
  • 3:4 It was but a little that I passed from them, When 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. 1
  • 3:11 Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon, With the crown wherewith his mother hath crowned him In the day of his espousals, And in the day of the gladness of his heart. 1

American Standard Version

Where it is preached

  1. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

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

    …g 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 rende…

  2. All Things for Good · Thomas Watson

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

    …t 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 l…

  3. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.2 The Second Commandment cites Cant 3: 2

    …e 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 hi…

  4. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.4 The Fourth Commandment cites Cant 3: 4

    …ul 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 enlighte…

  5. 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 …

  6. 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,…

  7. Union and Communion · Hudson Taylor

    Section VI cites Cant. iii. 6

    …g 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 a…

  8. 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

    …ing 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 th…