Song of Songs 1:8 Cross References - ISV

⁸ The LoverIf you don’t know, most beautiful of women, go out after the flock and graze your young goats beside the shepherd’s tents.

³ As for the saints that are in the land, they are noble, and all my delight is in them.

¹¹ and the king will greatly desire your beauty. Because he is your lord, you should bow in respect before him.

¹³ In her chamber, the king’s daughter is glorious; her clothing is embroidered with gold thread.

³⁴ Blessed is the person who listens to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at my doorways—

¹⁵ The LoverLook at you! You are beautiful, my darling. Look at you! You are so beautiful. Your eyes are doves.

¹⁰ The LoverMy beloved spoke to me: “Get up, my darling, my beautiful one, and come on.

¹ The Lover Look at you! You are beautiful, my darling. Look at you! You are so beautiful. Your eyes behind your veil are doves, your hair is like a flock of goats coming down from Mt. Gilead.

⁷ My darling, you are altogether beautiful and there is no blemish in you.

¹⁰ How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride. How much better is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your perfume than all kinds of spices.

⁹ The Young WomenWhat is so special about your beloved, most beautiful of women? What is so special about your beloved, that you charge us like this?

¹ The Young Women Where did your beloved go, most beautiful of women? Where did your beloved turn, so we may look for him with you?

⁴ The LoverYou are beautiful, my darling, like Tirzah, lovely like Jerusalem, as awesome as an army with banners. ⁵ Turn your eyes from me, for they excite me. Your hair is like a flock of goats coming down from Mt. Gilead. ⁶ Your teeth are like a flock of ewes coming up from being washed. All of them are twins, not one has lost her young. ⁷ Your temple behind your veil is like a slice of pomegranate. ⁸ There are sixty queens and eighty mistresses, and too many young women to count, ⁹ but my dove, my perfect one, is unique. She’s unique to her mother, she’s pure to the one who gave birth to her. Young women see her and call her blessed, queens and mistresses praise her.
¹⁰ The Young WomenWho is this who appears like the dawn, beautiful as the moon, bright as the sun, awesome as an army with banners?

¹ How beautiful are your feet in sandals, noble lady. The curves of your thighs are like ornaments, the work of a skilled artist’s hands. ² Your navel is a rounded goblet that never lacks mixed wine. Your abdomen is a bundle of wheat, enclosed by lilies. ³ Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle. ⁴ Your neck is like a tower of ivory. Your eyes are like the pools in Heshbon, beside the gate of Beth-rabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon, which faces Damascus. ⁵ Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel. Your flowing locks are like purple, and a king could be captured in the dangling tresses. ⁶ How beautiful and lovely you are, you are love with its exquisite delights. ⁷ Your stature is like a palm tree, and your breasts are like clusters of fruit. ⁸ I told myself, “I’ll go up the palm tree, and take hold of its fruit. May your breasts be like clusters of the vine, and the smell of your breath like apples. ⁹ May your mouth be like good wine.
The Loved One May it go down smoothly to my beloved, gliding gently over the lips of the sleeping ones. ¹⁰ I belong to my beloved, and his desire is for me. ¹¹ Come, my beloved. Let us go out to the country, let us spend the night in the villages. ¹² Let us go early to the vineyards, let us see whether the vine has budded, whether the blossom has opened, whether the pomegranates have bloomed. There I’ll give you my love. ¹³ The mandrakes give off their fragrance, and over our doors are all the choice fruits, both old and new, that I’ve stored up for you, my beloved.

¹⁶ Israel Refuses to RepentThis is what the LORD says: “Stand beside the roads and watch. Ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is. Walk in it and find rest for yourselves. But they said, ‘We won’t walk in it!’

¹⁵ Jesus Speaks with PeterWhen they had finished breakfast, Jesus asked Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?”
Peter told him, “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.”
Jesus told him, “Feed my lambs.”

¹ Be Imitators of MeImitate me, as I do the Messiah.

²⁷ and might present the church to himself in all its glory, without a spot or wrinkle or anything of the kind, but holy and without fault.

¹² Then, instead of being lazy, you will imitate those who are inheriting the promises through faith and patience.

⁴ By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain did, and by faith he was declared to be righteous, since God himself accepted his offerings. And by faith he continues to speak, even though he is dead.
⁵ By faith Enoch was taken away without experiencing death. He could not be found, because God had taken him away. For before he was taken, he won approval as one who pleased God. ⁶ Now without faith it is impossible to please God, for whoever comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who diligently search for him.
⁷ By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, reverently prepared an ark to save his family, and by faith he condemned the world and inherited the righteousness that comes by faith.
⁸ By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going.
⁹ By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger, living in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who also inherited the same promise, ¹⁰ because he was waiting for the city with permanent foundations, whose architect and builder is God.
¹¹ By faith Sarah, even though she was old and barren, received the strength to conceive, because she was convinced that the one who had made the promise was faithful. ¹² Abraham was as good as dead, yet from this one man came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.
¹³ All these people died having faith. They did not receive the things that were promised, yet they saw them in the distant future and welcomed them, acknowledging that they were strangers and foreigners on earth. ¹⁴ For people who say such things make it clear that they are looking for a country of their own. ¹⁵ If they had been thinking about what they had left behind, they would have had an opportunity to go back. ¹⁶ Instead, they were longing for a better country, that is, a heavenly one. That is why God is not ashamed to be called their God, because he has prepared a city for them.
¹⁷ By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered Isaac—he who had received the promises was about to offer his unique son in sacrifice, ¹⁸ about whom it had been said, “It is through Isaac that descendants will be named for you.” ¹⁹ Abraham was certain that God could raise the dead, and figuratively speaking, he did get Isaac back in this way.
²⁰ By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau in regard to their future.
²¹ By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of Joseph’s sons “and worshipped while leaning on the top of his staff.”
²² By faith Joseph, when his end was near, spoke about the exodus of the Israelis and gave them instructions about burying his bones.
²³ By faith Moses was hidden by his parents for three months after he was born, because they saw that he was a beautiful child and were not afraid of the king’s order.
²⁴ By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called a son of Pharaoh’s daughter, ²⁵ because he preferred being mistreated with God’s people to enjoying the pleasures of sin for a short time. ²⁶ He thought that being insulted for the sake of the Messiah was of greater value than the treasures of Egypt, because he was looking ahead to his reward.
²⁷ By faith he left Egypt, without being afraid of the king’s anger, and he persevered because he saw the one who is invisible.
²⁸ By faith he established the Passover and the sprinkling of blood to keep the destroyer of the firstborn from touching the people.
²⁹ By faith they went through the Red Sea as if it were dry land. When the Egyptians tried to do this, they were drowned.
³⁰ By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days.
³¹ By faith Rahab the prostitute did not die with those who were disobedient, because she had welcomed the spies with a greeting of peace.
³² And what more should I say? For time would fail me to tell you about Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets. ³³ Through faith they conquered kingdoms, administered justice, received promises, shut the mouths of lions, ³⁴ put out raging fires, escaped death by the sword, found strength in weakness, became powerful in battle, and routed foreign armies. ³⁵ Women received their dead raised back to life. Other people were brutally tortured, but refused to be ransomed, so that they might gain a better resurrection. ³⁶ Still others endured taunts and floggings, and even chains and imprisonment. ³⁷ They were stoned to death, sawed in half, and killed with swords. They went around in sheepskins and goatskins. They were needy, oppressed, and mistreated. ³⁸ The world wasn’t worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and from caves to holes in the ground.
³⁹ All these people won approval for their faith but they did not receive what was promised, ⁴⁰ since God had planned something better for us, so that they would not be perfected without us.

⁷ Remember your leaders, those who have spoken God’s word to you. Think about the impact of their lives, and imitate their faith.

²¹ Our ancestor Abraham was justified by his actions when he offered his son Isaac on the altar, wasn’t he?

²⁵ Likewise, Rahab the prostitute was justified through actions when she welcomed the messengers and sent them away on a different road, wasn’t she?

¹⁰ As an example of suffering and patience, brothers, take the prophets, who spoke in the name of the Lord.

⁶ just as Sarah obeyed Abraham and called him lord. You have become her daughters by doing good and by not letting anything terrify you.

⁷ Let us rejoice, be glad, and give him glory, because the marriage of the lamb has come and his bride has made herself ready. ⁸ She has been given the privilege of wearing fine linen, dazzling and pure.”(The fine linen represents the righteous deeds of the saints.)