Song of Songs 5:5 Cross References - ISV

⁵ I got up to open the door, and my hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the handle of the lock.

⁶ The Lover ArrivesWhat is this coming up from the desert like columns of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and incense from all the fragrant powders of the merchant?

¹³ Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with choice fruit, henna with nard, ¹⁴ nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with all the trees of frankincense, along with myrrh and aloes, and all the finest spices.

² The Loved OneI was asleep, but my heart was awake. There’s a sound! My beloved is knocking.
The Lover “Open up for me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my perfect one. For my head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.”

¹³ His cheeks are like beds of spices, like towers of perfume. His lips are lilies, dripping with liquid myrrh.

³⁶ Be like people who are waiting for their master to return from a wedding. As soon as he arrives and knocks, they will open the door for him.

⁷ and not only by his arrival but also by the comfort he had received from you. He told us about your longing for me, your sorrow, and your eagerness to take my side, and this made me even happier.

⁹ Now I am happy, not because you had such sorrow, but because your sorrow led you to repent. For you were sorry in a godly way, and so you were not hurt by us in any way. ¹⁰ For having sorrow in a godly way results in repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regrets. But the sorrow of the world produces death.
¹¹ See what great earnestness godly sorrow has produced in you! How ready you are to clear yourselves, how indignant, how alarmed, how full of longing and enthusiasm, how eager to seek justice! In every way you have demonstrated that you are innocent in this matter.

¹⁷ and that the Messiah would make his home in your hearts through faith. Then, having been rooted and grounded in love,

²⁰ Look! I am standing at the door and knocking. If anyone listens to my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he will eat with me.