Longing for Her Beloved
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Oh that you were like a brother to me
who nursed at my mother's breasts!
If I found you outside, I would kiss you,
and none would despise me.
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I would lead you and r bring you
into the house of my mother -
she who used to teach me.
I would give you s spiced wine to drink,
the juice of my pomegranate.
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t His left hand is under my head,
and his right hand embraces me!
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I u adjure you, O v daughters of Jerusalem,
w that you not stir up or awaken love
until it pleases.
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x Who is that coming up from the wilderness,
leaning on her beloved?
Under the apple tree I awakened you.
There your mother was in labor with you;
there she who bore you was in labor.
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Set me as a seal upon your heart,
as y a seal upon your arm,
for z love is strong as death,
a jealousy is fierce as the grave.
Its flashes are flashes of fire,
the very b flame of the Lord.
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Many waters cannot quench love,
neither can floods drown it.
If a man offered for love
all the wealth of his c house,
he would be utterly despised.
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Cross References
Song of Solomon 3:4
Scarcely had I passed them when I found him whom my soul loves. 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 who conceived me.
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Cross References
Proverbs 9:2
She has slaughtered her beasts; she has mixed her wine; she has also set her table.
Proverbs 9:5
Come, eat of my bread and drink of the wine I have mixed.
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Cross References
Song of Solomon 2:6 - 7
His left hand is under my head, and his right hand embraces me!
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Cross References
Song of Solomon 2:7
I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or the does of the field, that you not stir up or awaken love until it pleases.
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Cross References
Song of Solomon 1:5
I am very dark, but lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.
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Cross References
Song of Solomon 2:7
I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or the does of the field, that you not stir up or awaken love until it pleases.
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Cross References
Song of Solomon 3:6
What is that coming up from the wilderness like columns of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all the fragrant powders of a merchant?
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Cross References
Isaiah 49:16
Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.
Jeremiah 22:24
As I live, declares the Lord, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, were the signet ring on my right hand, yet I would tear you off
Haggai 2:23
On that day, declares the Lord of hosts, I will take you, O Zerubbabel my servant, the son of Shealtiel, declares the Lord, and make you like a signet ring, for I have chosen you, declares the Lord of hosts.
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Cross References
Romans 8:35
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
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Cross References
Exodus 34:14
(for you shall worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God).
Deuteronomy 4:24
For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
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Cross References
Job 1:16
While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, "The fire of God fell from heaven and burned up the sheep and the servants and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you.
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Cross References
Proverbs 6:35
He will accept no compensation; he will refuse though you multiply gifts.
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