I will rise now; I will immediately apply myself to seek him, without whom my bed can give me no rest nor comfort. The city; the city of God, the church, in which Christ resides. In the streets, and in the broad ways: not finding him in private prayer and meditation, I sought him in the places of public assemblies and ordinances; for the people frequently met together in the streets, not only for civil, but for religious ends, 2 Chronicles 32:6 Nehemiah 8:1,3,16 Pr 1:20,21 Lu 13:26. I found him not; he saw fit still to delay the discoveries of his grace, partly, to chastise my former folly; partly, to try my sincerity and constancy; and partly, that he might be more welcome when he came to me.
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Song of Solomon 3:2
2 I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.