Song of Songs 5:6

She opens the door, but her beloved has gone; she seeks and calls but finds no answer. It captures the grief of missed communion.

Cross-references · 30

• Song 5:2I sleep, but my heart is awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking: “Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one. My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.”
• Rev 3:19Those I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.
• Hos 5:15Then I will return to My place until they admit their guilt and seek My face; in their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.”
• Ps 28:1Of David. To You, O LORD, I call; be not deaf to me, O my Rock. For if You remain silent, I will be like those descending to the Pit.
• Ps 22:1–2For the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Doe of the Dawn.” A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from saving me, so far from my words of groaning?
• Isa 8:17I will wait for the LORD, who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob. I will put my trust in Him.
• Mark 14:72And immediately the rooster crowed a second time. Then Peter remembered the word that Jesus had spoken to him: “Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny Me three times.” And he broke down and wept.
• Gen 42:28“My silver has been returned!” he said to his brothers. “It is here in my sack.” Their hearts sank, and trembling, they turned to one another and said, “What is this that God has done to us?”
• Ps 88:9–14My eyes grow dim with grief. I call to You daily, O LORD; I spread out my hands to You.
• Prov 1:28Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; they will earnestly seek me, but will not find me.
• Song 6:1Where has your beloved gone, O most beautiful among women? Which way has he turned? We will seek him with you.
• Hos 5:6They go with their flocks and herds to seek the LORD, but they do not find Him; He has withdrawn Himself from them.
• Luke 22:61–62And the Lord turned and looked at Peter. Then Peter remembered the word that the Lord had spoken to him: “Before the rooster crows today, you will deny Me three times.”
• Song 5:4My beloved put his hand to the latch; my heart pounded for him.
• Isa 57:16For I will not accuse you forever, nor will I always be angry; for then the spirit of man would grow weak before Me, with the breath of those I have made.
• Isa 54:6–8For the LORD has called you back, like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit, like the rejected wife of one’s youth,” says your God.
• 1 Sam 28:6He inquired of the LORD, but the LORD did not answer him by dreams or Urim or prophets.
• Ps 80:4O LORD God of Hosts, how long will Your anger smolder against the prayers of Your people?
• Ps 69:3I am weary from my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.
• Zech 7:13And just as I had called and they would not listen, so when they called I would not listen, says the LORD of Hosts.
• Song 3:1–2On my bed at night I sought the one I love; I sought him, but did not find him.
• Lam 3:8Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.
• Matt 15:22–28And a Canaanite woman from that region came to Him, crying out, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is miserably possessed by a demon.”
• Ps 77:3I remembered You, O God, and I groaned; I mused and my spirit grew faint. Selah
• Ps 30:7O LORD, You favored me; You made my mountain stand strong. When You hid Your face, I was dismayed.
• Isa 50:2Why was no one there when I arrived? Why did no one answer when I called? Is My hand too short to redeem you? Or do I lack the strength to deliver you? Behold, My rebuke dries up the sea; I turn the rivers into a desert; the fish rot for lack of water and die of thirst.
• Matt 26:75Then Peter remembered the word that Jesus had spoken: “Before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.” And he went outside and wept bitterly.
• Isa 58:2For day after day they seek Me and delight to know My ways, like a nation that does what is right and does not forsake the justice of their God. They ask Me for righteous judgments; they delight in the nearness of God.”
• 2 Sam 16:10But the king replied, “What have I to do with you, O sons of Zeruiah? If he curses me because the LORD told him, ‘Curse David,’ who can ask, ‘Why did you do this?’”
• Isa 12:1In that day you will say: “O LORD, I will praise You. Although You were angry with me, Your anger has turned away, and You have comforted me.

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