INgoma yazo iiNgoma 3:1

Izhibhalo Ezingcwele

1 Esililini sam ebusuku ndamfuna lowo uthandwa ngumphefumlo wam; Ndamfuna andamfumana.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

night: Psalms 4:4, Psalms 6:6, Psalms 22:2, Psalms 63:6-8, Psalms 77:2-4, Isaiah 26:9

him whom: Song of Solomon 1:7, Song of Solomon 5:8, John 21:17, 1 Peter 1:8

but: Song of Solomon 5:6, Job 23:8, Job 23:9, Psalms 130:1, Psalms 130:2, Isaiah 55:6, Luke 13:24

Reciprocal: Job 29:5 - the Almighty Psalms 63:1 - early Song of Solomon 5:2 - sleep Matthew 25:5 - they Mark 13:36 - he find Luke 11:9 - seek John 11:29 - General 1 Corinthians 16:22 - love Hebrews 11:6 - diligently

Gill's Notes on the Bible

By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth,.... The day being not yet broke, the night of Jewish darkness still on the church, and the shadow of the ceremonial law as yet stretched upon her; and having some knowledge of Christ by types and prophecies, desires more, and seeks it in the use of means: though the words may be taken in a more large sense, and represent the state and condition of the church and of all true believers in any age, and at one time as well as another; who, when their beloved is absent, it is "night" with them; as Christ's presence makes day, his absence makes night; and it was now night with the Church, either of affliction, or of darkness and desertion, and indeed of both. The word is plural, "by nights" i; one night after another, successively, she sought her beloved; which both expresses the continuance of her state, and her diligence and constancy in seeking Christ. The place where she sought him was "her bed"; not the same as in Song of Solomon 1:16; which was both Christ's and hers, and where a different word is used; but this was purely her own: either a bed of affliction, when good men usually seek the Lord, Isaiah 26:16 Hosea 5:15; or rather of carnal ease and security, in which she continued, and rose not up from it to seek her beloved; which shows the cold, lukewarm, lazy frame she was in, and formal manner in which she sought him, and so succeeded not: however, he was stilt the person "whom [her] soul loved", cordially and sincerely, though not so fervently as she had done; true love, though it may be abated, cannot be lost;

I sought him, but I found him not; because she sought him not aright; not timely, nor fervently and diligently, nor in a proper place; not in her closet, by prayer, reading, and meditation, nor in public ordinances, she afterwards did; but on her bed.

i בלילות εν νυξιν, Sept. "per noctes", V. L. Junius Tremeilius, Piscator "in noctibus", Pagninus, Montanus, Tigurine versions, Marckius, Michaelis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

By night - i. e., In the night-hours.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER III

The bride mentions the absence of her spouse, her search after

him, and her ultimate success, 1-5.

A description of the bridegroom, his bed, chariot, &c., 6-11.

NOTES ON CHAP. III

Verse Song of Solomon 3:1. By night on my bed I sought him — It appears that the bridegroom only saw the bride by night: that on the night referred to here he did not come as usual. The bride troubled on the account, rose and sought him, inquired of the city guards, and continued to seek till at last she found him, and brought him to her apartment, Song of Solomon 3:2-4.