Songs 3:3
Good News Translation
The sentries patrolling the city saw me. I asked them, "Have you found my lover?"

New Revised Standard Version
The sentinels found me, as they went about in the city. “Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”

Contemporary English Version
I even asked the guards patrolling the town, "Have you seen the one I love so much?"

New American Bible
The watchmen found me, as they made their rounds in the city: “Him whom my soul loves—have you seen him?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
The watchmen who keep the city, found me: Have you seen him, whom my soul loveth?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The watchmen who keep the city, found me: Have you seen him, whom my soul loveth?

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Songs 5:7 The keepers that go about the city found me: they struck me: and wounded me: the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.

Isaiah 21:6-8,11,12 For thus hath the Lord said to me: Go, and set a watchman: and whatsoever he shall see, let him tell. . . .

Isaiah 56:10 His watchmen are all blind, they are all ignorant: dumb dogs not able to bark, seeing vain things, sleeping and loving dreams.

Isaiah 62:6 Upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen all the day, and all the night, they shall never hold their peace. You that are mindful of the Lord, hold not your peace,

Ezekiel 3:17 Son of man, I have made thee a watchman to the house of Israel: and thou shalt hear the word out of my mouth, and shalt tell it them from me.

Ezekiel 33:2-9 Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say to them: When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man, one of their meanest, and make him a watchman over them: . . .

Hebrews 13:17 Obey your prelates and be subject to them. For they watch as being to render an account of your souls: that they may do this with joy and not with grief. For this is not expedient for you.

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John 20:15 Jesus saith to her: Woman, why weepest thou? Whom seekest thou? She, thinking that it was the gardener, saith to him: Sir, if thou hast taken him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him: and I will take him away.

Context
The Bride's Dream
2I will rise, and will go about the city: in the streets and the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, and I found him not. 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.…
Cross References
Isaiah 21:6
For thus hath the Lord said to me: Go, and set a watchman: and whatsoever he shall see, let him tell.

Isaiah 21:11
The burden of Duma calleth to me out of Seir: Watchman, what of the night? watchman, what of the night?

Songs 3:2
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