Song of Songs 5:5 Cross References - MLV

⁵ I rose up to open to my beloved and my hands drops with myrrh and my fingers with liquid myrrh, upon the handles of the bolt.

⁶ Who is this who comes up from the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?

¹³ Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits, henna with spikenard plants, ¹⁴ spikenard and saffron, cane and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense, myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices.

² I was asleep, but my heart awoke. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled. For my head is filled with dew, my locks with the drops of the night.

¹³ His cheeks are as a bed of spices, banks of sweet herbs. His lips are lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.

³⁶ and you yourselves are similar to men waiting for their lord, as to whenever he vacates from the marriage-feast; in order that, when he has come and knocks, they may immediately open to him.

⁷ and not only at his presence, but also at the encouragement to which he was encouraged in you, while reporting to us your longing, your anguish, your zeal on my behalf; so-that I rejoiced even more.

⁹ I now rejoice, not that you were made sorrowful, but that you were made sorrowful to repentance; for you were made sorrowful according to the will of God, in order that you might suffer-damage in nothing from us. ¹⁰ For the sorrow which is according to the will of God is working unregrettable repentance for salvation, but the sorrow of the world is working death. ¹¹ For behold how much diligence this same thing, (your being sorrowful according to the will of God), has worked in you : but what a defense, but what indignation, but what fear, but what longing, but what zeal, but what vengeance! In everything you commended yourselves to be pure in the matter.

¹⁷ for the Christ to dwell in your hearts through the faith,

²⁰ Behold, I am standing at the door and knocking; if anyone hears my voice and if he opens the door, I will enter to him and will dine with him and he with me.