Song of Songs 8:8 Cross References - ISV

⁸ The Loved One’s BrothersWe have a little sister, and she has not yet reached maturity. What will we do for our sister to prepare her for her engagement?

⁸ Ask of me, and I will give you the nations as your inheritance, the ends of the earth as your possession.

¹⁷ Praising the God of IsraelMay his fame be eternal— as long as the sun— may his name endure, and may they be blessed through him, and may all nations call him blessed. ¹⁸ Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who alone does awesome deeds. ¹⁹ And blessed be his glorious name forever, and may the whole earth be filled with his glory. Amen and amen!

¹⁹ He declares his words to Jacob, his statutes and decrees to Israel. ²⁰ He has not dealt with any other nation like this; they never knew his decrees. Hallelujah!

⁵ Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle grazing among the lilies.

³ Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.

¹⁰ The Loved OneI was a wall and my breasts were like towers. Then I became like one who finds peace in his eyes.

⁶ he says: “It is too small a thing for you to be my servant, to raise up the tribes of Israel and bring back those of Jacob I have preserved. I’ll also make you as a light to the nations, to be my salvation to the ends of the earth.

¹ The Light of God’s Deliverance “Arise, shine! For your light has come; the glory of the LORD has risen upon you. ² For look! Darkness will cover the earth and thick darkness is over the people, but the LORD will arise upon you, and his glory will appear over you. ³ Nations will come to your light, and kings before your dawn. ⁴ “Lift up your eyes and look around: They all gather together, they come to you; your sons will come from far away, and your daughters will be carried on the hip.” ⁵ Then you will look and be radiant; your heart will swell with joy, because the abundance of the seas will be diverted to you, and the riches of the nations will come to you.

¹⁰ “Foreigners will rebuild your walls, and their kings will serve you. Though in my anger I struck you down, in my favor I have shown you mercy. ¹¹ Your gates will always stand open by day or night, and they will not be shut, so that nations will bring you their wealth, with their kings led in procession.

⁷ I made you increase like sprouting grain in the field. As a result, you multiplied greatly. Eventually, you reached the age when young women start wearing jewelry. Your breasts were formed, your hair had grown, but you were still bare and naked.”’”

⁴⁶ Your elder sister was Samaria. She and her daughters lived in the north, while your younger sister who lived in the south with her daughters was Sodom.

⁵⁵ Your sister Sodom and her daughters will be restored to their former status. Samaria and her daughters will be restored to their former status. Then you and your daughters will be restored to your former status.
⁵⁶ “When you were being so arrogant, you never once mentioned your sister Sodom

⁶¹ Then you’ll remember your behavior and be ashamed when you greet your sisters—your elder sister and your younger sister. I’ll give them to you as daughters, but not on account of my covenant with you.

³³ You’ll be filled with drunkenness and grief. The cup that belongs to your sister Samaria is filled with horror and devastation,

⁴⁴ They will level you to the ground—you and those who live within your city limits. They will not leave one stone on another within your walls, because you didn’t recognize the time when you were visited.”

¹⁶ I have other sheep that don’t belong to this fold. I must lead these also, and they’ll listen to my voice. So there will be one flock and one shepherd.

³⁸ This Moses is the one who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai and to our ancestors. He received living truths to give to us,

¹ Cornelius Has a VisionNow in Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion in what was known as the Italian Regiment. ² He was a devout man who feared God, as did everyone in his home. He gave many gifts to the poor among the people and always prayed to God.
³ One day, about three in the afternoon, he had a vision and clearly saw an angel of God coming to him and saying to him, “Cornelius!”
⁴ He stared at the angel in terror and asked, “What is it, Lord?”
The angel answered him, “Your prayers and your gifts to the poor have arisen as a reminder to God. ⁵ Send men now to Joppa and summon Simon, who is called Peter. ⁶ He is a guest of Simon, a leatherworker, whose house is by the sea.”
⁷ When the angel who had spoken to him had gone, Cornelius summoned two of his household servants and a devout soldier, one of those who served him regularly. ⁸ He explained everything to them and sent them to Joppa.
⁹ Peter Has a VisionAround noon the next day, while they were on their way and coming close to the town, Peter went up on the roof to pray. ¹⁰ He became very hungry and wanted to eat, and while the food was being prepared, he fell into a trance ¹¹ and saw heaven open and something like a large linen sheet coming down, being lowered by its four corners to the ground. ¹² In it were all kinds of four-footed animals, reptiles, and birds of the air.
¹³ Then a voice told him, “Get up, Peter! Kill something and eat it.”
¹⁴ But Peter said, “Absolutely not, Lord, for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean!”
¹⁵ Again the voice came to him a second time, “You must stop calling unclean what God has made clean.” ¹⁶ This happened three times. Then the sheet was quickly taken back into heaven.
¹⁷ While Peter was still at a loss to know what the vision he had seen could mean, the men sent by Cornelius asked for Simon’s house and went to the gate. ¹⁸ They called out and asked if Simon who was called Peter was staying there.

¹ Peter Reports to the Church in JerusalemNow the apostles and the brothers who were in Judea heard that the gentiles had also accepted the word of God. ² But when Peter went up to Jerusalem, those who emphasized circumcision disagreed with him. ³ They said, “You went to uncircumcised men and ate with them!”
⁴ Then Peter began to explain to them point by point what had happened. He said, ⁵ “I was in the town of Joppa praying when in a trance I saw a vision: Something like a large linen sheet descended down from heaven, lowered by its four corners, and it came right down to me. ⁶ When I examined it closely, I saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, reptiles, and birds of the air. ⁷ I also heard a voice telling me, ‘Get up, Peter! Kill something and eat it.’ ⁸ But I replied, ‘Absolutely not, Lord, for nothing common or unclean has ever entered my mouth!’ ⁹ Then the voice from heaven answered a second time, ‘You must stop calling common what God has made clean!’ ¹⁰ This happened three times. Then everything was pulled back up to heaven.
¹¹ “At that very moment three men arrived at the house where we were staying. They had been sent to me from Caesarea. ¹² The Spirit told me to go with them without hesitating. These six brothers went with me, too, and we entered the house of the man from Caesarea. ¹³ Then he told us how he had seen an angel standing in his home and saying, ‘Send messengers to Joppa and summon Simon, who is called Peter. ¹⁴ He will discuss with you how you and your entire household will be saved.’
¹⁵ “When I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as he was first given to us. ¹⁶ Then I remembered what the Lord had said: ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’ ¹⁷ Now if God gave them the same gift that he gave us when we believed in the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, who was I to try to stop God?”
¹⁸ When they heard this, they calmed down, and praised God by saying, “So God has given repentance that leads to life even to gentiles.”

¹⁴ Simeon has explained how God first showed his concern for the gentiles by taking from among them a people for his name. ¹⁵ This agrees with the words of the prophets. As it is written, ¹⁶ ‘“After this, I will come back and set up David’s fallen tent again. I will restore its ruined places and set it up again ¹⁷ so that the rest of the people may search for the Lord, including all the gentiles who are called by my name,’ declares the Lord. ‘He is the one who has been doing these things

⁹ During the night Paul had a vision. A man from Macedonia was standing there and pleading with him, “Come over to Macedonia and help us!”

²¹ “Then he told me, ‘Go, because I’ll send you far away to the gentiles.’”

¹⁷ I’ll continue to rescue you from your people and from the gentiles to whom I’m sending you. ¹⁸ You will help them understand and turn them from darkness to light and from Satan’s control to God, so that their sins will be forgiven and they will receive a share among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

¹ Everyone is a SinnerWhat advantage, then, does the Jew have, or what value is there in circumcision? ² There are all kinds of advantages! First of all, the Jews have been entrusted with the utterances of God.

¹² There is no difference between Jew and Greek, because they all have the same Lord, who gives richly to all who call on him. ¹³ “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
¹⁴ How, then, can people call on someone they have not believed? And how can they believe in someone they have not heard about? And how can they hear without someone preaching? ¹⁵ And how can people preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are those who bring the good news!”

⁹ so that the gentiles may glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, “That is why I will praise you among the gentiles; I will sing praises to your name.”
¹⁰ Again he says, “Rejoice, you gentiles, with his people!”
¹¹ And again, “Praise the Lord, all you gentiles! Let all the nations praise him.”
¹² And again, Isaiah says, “There will be a Root from Jesse. He will rise up to rule the gentiles, and the gentiles will hope in him.”

¹² At that time you were without the Messiah, excluded from citizenship in Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise. You had no hope and were in the world without God. ¹³ But now, in union with the Messiah Jesus, you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of the Messiah.
¹⁴ For it is he who is our peace. Through his mortality he made both groups one by tearing down the wall of hostility that divided them. ¹⁵ He rendered the Law inoperative, along with its commandments and regulations, thus creating in himself one new humanity from the two, thereby making peace,

¹⁹ That is why you are no longer strangers and foreigners but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household, ²⁰ having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, the Messiah Jesus himself being the cornerstone. ²¹ In union with him the whole building is joined together and rises into a holy sanctuary for the Lord. ²² You, too, are being built in him, along with the others, into a place for God’s Spirit to dwell.

¹² Continue to live such upright lives among the gentiles that, when they slander you as practicers of evil, they may see your good actions and glorify God when he visits them.