Songs 3:4
Good News Translation
As soon as I left them, I found him. I held him and wouldn't let him go until I took him to my mother's house, to the room where I was born.

New Revised Standard Version
Scarcely had I passed them, when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go until I brought him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.

Contemporary English Version
Right after that, I found him. I held him and would not let go until I had taken him to the home of my mother.

New American Bible
Hardly had I left them when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him and would not let him go until I had brought him to my mother’s house, to the chamber of her who conceived me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
When I had a little passed by them, I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him: and I will not let him go, till I bring him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that bore me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

When I had a little passed by them, I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him: and I will not let him go, till I bring him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that bore me.

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Songs 6:12 I knew not: my soul troubled me for the chariots of Aminadab.

Proverbs 8:17 With me are riches and glory, glorious riches and justice.

Isaiah 45:19 I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I have not said to the seed of Jacob: Seek me in vain. I am the Lord that speak justice, that declare right things.

Isaiah 55:6,7 Seek ye the Lord, while he may be found: call upon him, while he is near. . . .

Jeremiah 29:13 You shall seek me, and shall find me: when you shall seek me with all your heart.

Lamentations 3:25 Teth. The Lord is good to them that hope in him, to the soul that seeketh him.

Matthew 7:7 Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and you shall find: knock, and it shall be opened to you.

i held

Songs 7:5 Thy head is like Carmel: and the hairs of thy head as the purple of the king bound in the channels.

Genesis 32:26 And he said to him: Let me go, for it is break of day. He answered: I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.

Proverbs 4:13 Be not delighted in the paths of the wicked, neither let the way of evil men please thee.

Hosea 12:3,4 In the womb he supplanted his brother: and by his strength he had success with an angel. . . .

Matthew 28:9 And behold, Jesus met them, saying: All hail. But they came up and took hold of his feet and adored him.

John 20:16,17 Jesus saith to her: Mary. She turning, saith to him: Rabboni (which is to say, Master). . . .

Revelation 3:11,12 Behold, I come quickly: hold fast that which thou hast, that no man take thy crown. . . .

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Psalm 49:14-18 They are laid in hell like sheep: death shall feed upon them. And the just shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their help shall decay in hell from their glory. . . .

Psalm 54:1-3 Unto the end, in verses, understanding for David. [2] When the men of Ziph had come and said to Saul: Is not David hidden with us? [3] Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me in thy strength. . . .

Galatians 4:26 But that Jerusalem which is above is free: which is our mother.

Context
The Bride's Dream
3The watchmen who keep the city, found me: Have you seen him, whom my soul loveth? 4When I had a little passed by them, I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him: and I will not let him go, till I bring him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that bore me.5I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes and the harts of the fields, that you stir not up, nor awake my beloved, till she please.…
Cross References
Romans 8:35
Who then shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation? Or distress? Or famine? Or nakedness? Or danger? Or persecution? Or the sword?

Romans 8:39
Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Proverbs 4:13
Be not delighted in the paths of the wicked, neither let the way of evil men please thee.

Proverbs 8:17
With me are riches and glory, glorious riches and justice.

Songs 8:2
I will take hold of thee, and bring thee into my mother's house: there thou shalt teach me, and I will give thee a cup of spiced wine and new wine of my pomegranates.

Songs 3:3
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