I will arise now and go about the city, through the streets and squares. I will seek the one I love. So I sought him but did not find him.
Cross References
Jeremiah 5:1"Go up and down the streets of Jerusalem. Look now and take note; search her squares. If you can find a single person, anyone who acts justly, anyone who seeks the truth, then I will forgive the city.
Song of Solomon 3:3I encountered the watchmen on their rounds of the city: "Have you seen the one I love?"
Treasury of Scripture
I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but I found him not.
will rise
Song of Solomon 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.
Isaiah 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.
John 1:6
There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
the streets
Proverbs 1:20,21
Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: …
Proverbs 8:2,3,34
She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths…
Luke 14:21-23
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…
i sought
Psalm 22:1,2
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? …
Psalm 42:7-9
Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me…
Psalm 43:2-5
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? …
