Song of Songs 8 Cross References - Leeser

¹ Oh that some one would make thee as my brother that hath sucked my mother’s breasts! should I then find thee without, I would kiss thee; and yet, people would not despise me. ² I would lead thee, I would bring thee into my mother’s house, thou shouldst teach me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine, of the sweet juice of my pomegranate. ³ Oh that his left hand might be under my head, and that his right hand might embrace me. ⁴ I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, why will ye awaken, and why will ye excite my love, until it please to come of itself?— ⁵ Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her friend?—Under the apple-tree have I waked thee up; there thy mother brought thee forth; there brought thee forth she that bore thee. ⁶ Set me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thy arm; for strong as death is love; violent like the nether world is jealousy; its heat is the heat of fire, a flame of God. ⁷ Many waters are not able to quench love, nor can the rivers flood it away: if a man were to give all the wealth of his house for love, men would utterly despise him.— ⁸ We have a little sister, and she hath yet no breasts: what shall we do for our sister on the day when she shall be spoken for? ⁹ If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar.— ¹⁰ I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favor. ¹¹ Solomon had a vineyard at Ba’al-hamon; he had given up the vineyard unto the keepers; every one was to bring for its fruit a thousand pieces of silver. ¹² My vineyard, which was mine, was before me: thine, O Solomon, be the thousand, and let two hundred be for those that keep its fruit.— ¹³ “Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions listen for thy voice: oh let me hear it.” ¹⁴ Flee away, my friend, and be thou like the roebuck, or the fawn of the hinds, upon the mountain of spices.

⁸ But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.

¹⁶ And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver: behold, this is to thee a covering of the eyes unto all that are with thee; and with all others thou canst thus justify thyself.

⁹ And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and engrave on them the names of the children of Israel: ¹⁰ Six of their names on the one stone, and the names of the remaining six on the other stone, according to the order of their birth. ¹¹ With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engraving of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel; fitted in settings of gold shalt thou make them. ¹² And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulder-pieces of the ephod as stones of memorial unto the children of Israel; and Aaron shall bear their names before the Lord upon his two shoulders for a memorial.

²¹ And the stones shall be according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names; engraved with the engraving of a signet, every one according to his name, shall they be for the twelve tribes.

²⁹ And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth in unto the holy place, for a memorial before the Lord continually. ³⁰ And thou shalt put into the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim, and they shall be upon Aaron’s heart, when he goeth in before the Lord; and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart before the Lord continually.

¹⁴ And the spirit of jealousy come over him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she have been defiled; or the spirit of jealousy come over him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she have not been defiled:

¹¹ Phinehas, the son of Elazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned away my wrath from the children of Israel, while he was zealous in my stead in the midst of them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my indignation.

⁷ Not because ye are more in number than all the nations, did the Lord desire you and make choice of you; for ye are the fewest of all the nations; ⁸ But on account of the love of the Lord for you, and because he keepeth the oath which he hath sworn unto your fathers, hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bond-men, out of the hand of Pharaoh the king of Egypt.

²¹ They have moved me to wrath with things that are not god; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities; and I too will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a worthless nation.

²⁷ Thy refuge is the eternal God, and here beneath, the everlasting arms; and he thrust out the enemy from before thee; and he said, Destroy.

³⁸ And he aid, Go. And he sent her away for two months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity on the mountains.

¹¹ And it came to pass, when they saw him, that they brought thirty companions, and they remained with him.

¹⁵ And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar; from the floor of the house to where the walls touched the ceiling did he overlay it on the inside with wood; and he overlaid the floor of the house with boards of fir.

⁸ With him there is an arm of flesh; but with us is the Lord our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people relied upon the words of Hezekiah the king of Judah.

⁸ Ask it of me, and I will give thee nations for an inheritance, and for thy possession the uttermost ends of the earth.

¹² Do homage to the son, lest he be angry, and ye be lost on the way; for his wrath is so speedily kindled. Happy are all they that put their trust in him.

¹ BOOK SECOND: To the chief musician, a Maskil, for the sons of Korach. ^(42:2) As a hart panteth after brooks of water, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. ^{2 (42:3)} My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I go again and be seen in the presence of God?

^{10 (45:11)} Hearken, O daughter, and look, and incline thy ear, and forget thy own people, and thy father’s house: ^{11 (45:12)} Then will the king long for thy beauty; for he is thy Lord; and bow thyself to him.

^{14 (45:15)} In embroidered clothes will she be brought unto the king: virgins that follow her, her companions, are brought unto thee.

¹⁵ And call on me on the day of distress: I will deliver thee,—and so wilt thou glorify me.”

^{17 (51:19)} The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, wilt thou not despise.

¹ A psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. ^(63:2) O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry land, and it is faint without water.

^{8 (63:9)} My soul cleaveth unto following thee: me thy right hand upholdeth.

¹⁷ His name will endure for ever; in the presence of the sun his name shall flourish: and men shall bless themselves with him: all nations shall call him happy. ¹⁸ Blessed be the Lord the God, the God of Israel, who alone doth wondrous things. ¹⁹ And blessed he his glorious name for ever; and with his glory may the whole earth be filled: Amen, and Amen.

^{2 (84:3)} My soul desired, yea, it also longed for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh shout with joy unto the living God.

^{16 (102:17)} When the Lord shalt have built up Zion, he appeareth in his glory; ^{17 (102:18)} When he hath regarded the prayer of the forsaken, and doth not despise their prayer.

² Thus let the Lord’s redeemed say, even those whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the adversary; ³ And whom he hath gathered out of the various lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the sea. ⁴ They wandered about in the wilderness, in the desert path; they could not find an inhabited city: ⁵ Hungry and thirsty, their soul within them fainted. ⁶ Then they cried unto the Lord when they were in distress, and out of their afflictions he delivered them. ⁷ And he led them forth on the right way, that they might go to an inhabited city. ⁸ They therefore shall give thanks unto the Lord for his kindness, and proclaim his wonders to the children of men!

⁴ Sharpened arrows of the mighty, with coals of the broom-bush.

¹⁹ He declareth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his ordinances unto Israel. ²⁰ He hath not done so unto any nation: and his ordinances—these they know not. Hallelujah.

⁴ So shalt thou find grace and good favor in the eyes of God and man.

²³ Above all that is to be guarded, keep thy heart, for out of it are the issues of life.

³¹ And if he be found, he must pay sevenfold; all the wealth his house must he give.

³⁴ For jealousy is the fury of a husband, and he will not spare on the day of vengeance. ³⁵ He will not regard the appearance of any ransom; and he will not be content, though thou give ever so many bribes.

² She hath killed her cattle; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also set in order her table.

²² For though thou gatherest coals of fire upon his head, yet will the Lord repay it unto thee.

⁴ I made great works: I built myself houses; I planted myself vineyards;

² Oh that he might kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; for thy caresses are more pleasant than wine.

⁶ Look not so at me, because I am somewhat black, because the sun hath looked fiercely at me: my mother’s children were angry with me; they appointed me to be keeper of the vineyards; but my vineyard, which is my own, have I not kept.— ⁷ Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest? where lettest thou thy flock rest at noon? for why should I appear like a veiled mourner by the flocks of thy companions?—

³ Like the apple-tree among the trees of the forest, so is my friend among the young men: under his shadow do I ardently wish to sit, and his fruit is sweet to my palate.

⁶ Oh that his left hand might be under my head, and that his right might embrace me. ⁷ I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye awaken not, nor excite my love, till it please to come of itself.—

⁹ My friend is like a roebuck or the fawn of the hinds: behold, there he standeth behind our wall, looking in at the windows, seeing through the lattice.

¹³ The fig-tree perfumeth its green figs, and the vines with young grapes give forth a pleasant smell. Arise thee, my beloved, my fair one, and come along. ¹⁴ O my dove, who art in the clefts of the rock, in the recesses of the cliffs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for thy voice is sweet, and thy countenance is comely.—

¹⁷ Until the day become cool, and the shadows flee away, turn about, my friend, and be thou like the roebuck or the fawn of the hinds upon the mountains of separation.

⁴ Scarcely had I passed away from them, when I found him whom my soul loveth: I laid fast hold of him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her that had born me. ⁵ I adjure you, ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye awaken not, nor excite my love, till it please to come of itself.— ⁶ Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all spicy powders of the merchant? ⁷ Behold, it is the bed, which is Solomon’s, sixty valiant men are round about it, of the valiant ones of Israel. ⁸ All of them are girded with the sword, are expert in war; every one hath his sword upon his thigh, because of the terror in the nights. ⁹ A palanquin did king Solomon make for himself out of the wood of Lebanon. ¹⁰ The pillars thereof he made of silver, its coverlid of gold, its seat of purple: its inner part is arranged lovely, by the daughters of Jerusalem. ¹¹ Go forth, and look, O ye daughters of Zion, on king Solomon, with the crown wherewith his mother hath crowned him on the day of his espousals, and on the day of the joy in his heart.

¹¹ Go forth, and look, O ye daughters of Zion, on king Solomon, with the crown wherewith his mother hath crowned him on the day of his espousals, and on the day of the joy in his heart.

⁵ Thy two breasts are like two fawns, the twins of the roe, that feed among the lilies. ⁶ Until the day became cool, and the shadows flee away, will I get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.

⁸ Come with me from Lebanon, O bride, with me from Lebanon: look about from the top of Amanah, from the top of Senir and Chermon, from the lions’ dens, from the leopards’ mountains.

¹⁰ How beautiful are thy caresses, O my sister, my bride! how much more pleasant are thy caresses than wine! and the smell of thy fragrant oils more than all spices.

¹⁶ Awake, O north wind; and come thou, O south; blow over my garden, that its spices may flow out. Let my friend come into his garden, and eat its precious fruits.—

⁸ I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, what will ye tell him? that I am sick of love.— ⁹ What is thy friend more than another’s friend, O thou fairest of women? what is thy friend more than another’s friend, that thus thou adjurest us?— ¹⁰ My friend is white and ruddy, distinguished among ten thousand. ¹¹ His head is bright as the finest gold, his locks are like waving foliage, and black as a raven. ¹² His eyes are like those of doves by streamlets of waters, bathed in milk, well fitted in their setting. ¹³ His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as turrets of sweet perfumes: his lips, like lilies, dropping with fluid myrrh. ¹⁴ His hands are like wheels of gold beset with the chrysolite: his body, an image made of ivory overlaid with sapphires. ¹⁵ His legs are like pillars of marble, resting upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent like the cedars. ¹⁶ His palate is full of sweets, and every thing in him is agreeable. This is my friend, and this is my beloved, O daughters of Jerusalem.—

² My beloved is gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

¹⁰ Who is this that shineth forth like the morning-dawn, beautiful as the moon, bright as the sun, terrible as armies encamped round their banners? ¹¹ Into the nut-garden was I gone down, to look about among the plants of the valley, to see whether the vine had blossomed, whether the pomegranates had budded.

^{3 (7:4)} Thy two breasts are like two fawns, the twins of the roe.

^{3 (7:4)} Thy two breasts are like two fawns, the twins of the roe. ^{4 (7:5)} Thy neck is like a tower of ivory; thy eyes are like the pools in Cheshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim; thy nose is like the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.

^{7 (7:8)} This thy stature is like a palm-tree, and thy breasts are like clusters of grapes. ^{8 (7:9)} I thought, I wish to climb up the palm-tree, I wish to take hold of its boughs; and, oh, that thy breasts might be like clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples; ^{9 (7:10)} And thy palate like the best wine, that glideth down for my friend gently, exciting the lips of those that are asleep.—

^{11 (7:12)} Come, my friend, let us go forth into the field; let us spend the night in the villages; ^{12 (7:13)} Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine have blossomed, whether the young grape have opened to the view, whether the pomegranates have budded: there will I give my caresses unto thee.

^{12 (7:13)} Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine have blossomed, whether the young grape have opened to the view, whether the pomegranates have budded: there will I give my caresses unto thee.

¹ Oh that some one would make thee as my brother that hath sucked my mother’s breasts! should I then find thee without, I would kiss thee; and yet, people would not despise me.

¹⁰ I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favor.

¹ I will sing now for my beloved, the song of my dear one touching his vineyard. A vineyard had my beloved on a rich hill-top; ² And he fenced it in, and cleared it of stones, and planted it with the choicest vines, and built a tower in its midst, and also a winepress he hewed out therein: and he hoped that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth worthless fruit. ³ And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard. ⁴ What more was to be done to my vineyard, that I had not done in it? Why then did I hope that it should bring forth grapes, while it brought forth worthless fruit? ⁵ And now I will let you know also what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten off; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trodden down; ⁶ And I will lay it quite waste; it shall not be pruned, nor hoed around; and it shall be overgrown with briers and thorns; and the clouds will I command that they send down no rain upon it. ⁷ For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of his delight: and he hoped for justice, but behold injustice; for equity, but behold iniquity.

¹⁴ Therefore will the Lord himself give you a sign: behold, this young woman shall conceive, and bear a son, and she shall call his name ‘Immanu-el, God with us.

²³ And it shall come to pass on that day, that every place, where there are now a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels, shall be,—yea, this shall be given up to briers and thorns.

^{6 (9:5)} For a child is born unto us, a son hath been given unto us, and the government is placed on his shoulders; and his name is called, Wonderful, counsellor of the mighty God, of the everlasting Father, the prince of peace,

³ The confiding mind wilt thou keep in perfect peace; because he trusteth in thee. ⁴ Trust ye in the Lord unto eternity; for in Yah the Lord is everlasting protection.

⁶ Behold, thou trustedst on yon cracked reed-staff, on Egypt; which, if a man lean on it, will enter into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh the king of Egypt to all that trust on him.

³ A voice calleth out, In the wilderness make ye clear the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for God.

² Whenever thou passest through the waters, I am with thee; and through the rivers,—they shall not overflow thee: whenever thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be scorched; neither shall the flame burn on thee.

¹⁹ Behold, I will do a new thing; now shall it spring forth; will ye not acknowledge it? I will even make in the wilderness a way, and in the desert rivers.

⁶ And he said, It is too light a thing that thou shouldst be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to bring back the preserved of Israel! but I will also appoint thee for a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach as far as the end of the earth.

¹⁶ Behold, upon the palms of my hands have I engraved thee; thy walls are continually before me.

²⁰ Yet again will say before thy ears the children of whom thou wast deprived, The place is too narrow for me; make room for me that I may dwell. ²¹ And thou wilt say in thy heart, Who hath born me these, seeing I was bereft of my children, and was solitary, an exile, and outcast? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left entirely alone; these, where have they been? ²² Thus hath said the Lord Eternal, Behold, I will lift up to the nations my hand, and to the people will I raise up high my standard; and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon shoulders. ²³ And kings shall be thy nursing-fathers, and their princesses thy nursing-mothers; with the face toward the earth shall they bow down to thee, and the dust of thy feet shall they lick up: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord, who will not suffer those who hope in me to be ashamed.

¹² And they that spring from thee shall build up the ancient ruins; the foundations of many generations shalt thou raise up again: and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breaches, The restorer of paths to the dwelling-place.

¹ Arise, give light, for thy light is come; and the glory of the Lord is shining forth over thee. ² For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and a gross darkness the people; but over thee will shine forth the Lord, and his glory will be seen over thee. ³ And nations shall walk by thy light, and kings by the brightness of thy shining. ⁴ Lift up thy eyes round about and see, they all are assembled, they come to thee, thy sons are coming from afar, and thy daughters are brought along in arms. ⁵ Then wilt thou see and be filled with light, and thy heart will dread and be enlarged; because unto thee shall be turned the abundance of the sea, the riches of nations shall come unto thee.

¹⁰ And the sons of the stranger shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee; for in my wrath did I smite thee, but in my favor have I had mercy on thee.

¹⁰ And the sons of the stranger shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee; for in my wrath did I smite thee, but in my favor have I had mercy on thee. ¹¹ And thy gates shall stand open continually, day and night shall they not be closed, to bring unto thee the wealth of nations, and their kings led captive.

¹⁴ And then shall come unto thee bent down the sons of those who afflicted thee, and there shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet all thy revilers; and they shall call thee, The city of the Lord, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

¹⁷ Instead of the copper will I bring gold, and instead of the iron will I bring silver, and instead of wood copper, and instead of the stones iron; and I will set peace as thy authorities, and righteousness as thy taskmasters.

⁴ And they shall build up the ancient ruins, desolate places of former times shall they raise up, and they shall renew ruined cities, the desolate places of many generations.

⁴ Thou shalt not be termed any more “Forsaken,” and thy land shall not be termed any more “Desolate;” for thou shalt be called “My delight in her” [Chephzi-bah], and thy land “Espoused” [Be’ulah]; for the Lord will have delight in thee, and thy land shall be espoused. ⁵ For as a young man espouseth a virgin, so shall thy sons espouse thee; and as the bridegroom is glad over the bride, so will be glad over thee thy God.

¹¹ In order that ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breast of her consolations; in order that ye may sip, and find pleasure from the abundance of her glory. ¹² For thus hath said the Lord, Behold, I will extend to her peace like a river, and like a rapid stream the glory of nations, that ye may suck: upon the arm shall ye be borne, and upon knees shall ye be dandled.

² Go and call out before the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus hath said the Lord, I remember unto thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thy espousals, thy going after me in the wilderness, through a land that is not sown.

²⁴ As I live, saith the Lord, though Conyahu the son of Jehoyakim the king of Judah were a signet upon my right hand, yet for a surety would I thence pluck thee;

⁷ Myriads, like the vegetation of the field, did I make of thee, and thou didst increase and become great, and thou attainedst the highest attractions: with thy breasts developed, and thy hair full grown; but thou wast still naked and bare.

⁴⁶ And thy elder sister is Samaria, she with her daughters, that dwelleth at thy left hand, and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom with her daughters.

⁵⁵ And thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former state, and thou and thy daughters shall return to your former state. ⁵⁶ And was not thy sister Sodom a report in thy mouth in the days of thy pride,

⁶¹ And thou shalt then remember thy ways, and be confounded, when thou receivest thy sisters, both those that are older than thou and younger than thou: and I will give them unto thee for daughters, though not because thou wast faithful to the covenant.

³³ With drunkenness and sorrow shalt thou be filled, out of the cup of astonishment and confusion, the cup of thy sister Samaria.

^{4 (12:5)} Yea, he strove with an angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication unto him: in Beth-el he should find him, and there he will speak with us.

¹¹ Her heads judge for bribes, and her priests teach for reward, and her prophets divine for money: and yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, Is not the Lord among us? evil cannot come over us.

⁷ And I will cause to quake all the nations, and the precious things of all the nations shall come hither: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord of hosts.

²³ On that day, saith the Lord of hosts, will I take thee, O Zerubbabel, the son of Shealthiel, my servant, saith the Lord, and I will place thee as a signet; for of thee have I made choice, saith the Lord of hosts.

⁹ For behold here is the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone shall be seven eyes: behold, I will engrave thereon its inscription, saith the Lord of hosts, And I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.

¹² And thou shalt say unto him as followeth, Thus hath said the Lord of hosts, saying, Behold a man, Sprout is his name; since out of his own place shall he sprout up, even he shall build the temple of the Lord: ¹³ Yea, he shall build the temple of the Lord; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and a priest shall be upon his own throne; and the counsel of peace shall be between both of them. ¹⁴ And the crowns shall be for Chelem, and for Tobiyah, and for Yeda’yah, and for Chen the son of Zephanyah, as a memorial in the temple of the Lord. ¹⁵ And distant ones shall come and build on the temple of the Lord, and ye shall know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me unto you. And this shall come to pass, if ye will diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord your God.

⁹ Be greatly glad, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! behold, thy King will come unto thee, righteous and victorious is he, lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of a she-ass.

¹ Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall clear out the way before me: and suddenly will come to his temple the Lord, whom ye seek; and the messenger of the covenant, whom ye desire for, behold, he is coming, saith the Lord of hosts.