Devine Scripture

Song of Solomon 3:4

Song of Solomon chapter 3 · verse 4 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

It was but a little that I passed from them, but 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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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.

Context

v.3The watchmen that go about the city found me; To whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?

v.4This passage

v.5I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, By the roes, or by the hinds of the field, That ye stir not up, nor awake my love, Until he please.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Proverbs 4:13

    Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: Keep her; for she is thy life.

  • Isaiah 45:19

    I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness; I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I, Jehovah, speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.

  • Lamentations 3:25

    Jehovah is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.

  • Genesis 32:26

    And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.

  • Song of Solomon 6:12

    Before I was aware, my soul set me Amongthe chariots of my princely people.

  • Isaiah 54:1

    Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith Jehovah.