Song Of Songs Chapter 3 verse 1 Holy Bible

ASV SongOfSongs 3:1

By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
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BBE SongOfSongs 3:1

By night on my bed I was looking for him who is the love of my soul: I was looking for him, but I did not see him.
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DARBY SongOfSongs 3:1

On my bed, in the nights, I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
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KJV SongOfSongs 3:1

By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
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WBT SongOfSongs 3:1


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WEB SongOfSongs 3:1

By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn't find him.
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YLT SongOfSongs 3:1

On my couch by night, I sought him whom my soul hath loved; I sought him, and I found him not!
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 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 day on which she had been visited by her lover. She is retired to rest, and dreams that she searches for the beloved object in the neighbouring city (cf. Job 33:15). It is another way of telling her love. She is always longing for the beloved one. She had been waiting for him, and he came not, and retired to rest with a heart troubled and anxious because her lover did not appear as she expected at the evening hour. The meaning may be "night after night (לֵילות)" (cf. Song of Solomon 3:8), or the plural maybe used poetically for the singular. Ginsburg observes that "by night on my bed" is opposed to midday couch (cf. 2 Samuel 4:5), merely to express what came into her thoughts at night in her dreams or as the result of a dream. It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the bride intends to represent herself as suffering from self-reproach in having grieved her lover and kept him away from her. In that case the typical meaning would be simple and direct. The soul grieves when it is conscious of estrangement from him whom it loves, and the sense of separation becomes intolerable, impelling to new efforts to deepen the spiritual life.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English ReadersIII.(1) A reminiscence (elaborated in Song of Solomon 5:2 seq.) of the intensity of their love before their union, put by the poet into his lady's mouth. She "arises from dreams" of him, and goes to find him.