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 was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my hair with the dampness of the night.”
• Rev 3:19As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.
• Hos 5:15I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.”
• Ps 28:1By David. To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don’t be deaf to me; lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.
• Ps 22:1–2For the Chief Musician; set to “The Doe of the Morning.” A Psalm by David. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?
• Isa 8:17I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
• Mark 14:72The rooster crowed the second time. Peter remembered the word, how that Jesus said to him, “Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.” When he thought about that, he wept.
• Gen 42:28He said to his brothers, “My money is restored! Behold, it is in my sack!” Their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling to one another, saying, “What is this that God has done to us?”
• Ps 88:9–14My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, Yahweh. I have spread out my hands to you.
• Prov 1:28Then will they call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;
• Song 6:1Where has your beloved gone, you fairest among women? Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you?
• Hos 5:6They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Yahweh; but they won’t find him. He has withdrawn himself from them.
• Luke 22:61–62The Lord turned, and looked at Peter. Then Peter remembered the Lord’s word, how he said to him, “Before the rooster crows you will deny me three times.”
• Song 5:4My beloved thrust his hand in through the latch opening. My heart pounded for him.
• Isa 57:16For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls whom I have made.
• Isa 54:6–8For Yahweh has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off,” says your God.
• 1 Sam 28:6When Saul inquired of Yahweh, Yahweh didn’t answer him by dreams, by Urim, or by prophets.
• Ps 80:4Yahweh God of Armies, How long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?
• Ps 69:3I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail, looking for my God.
• Zech 7:13It has come to pass that, as he called, and they refused to listen, so they will call, and I will not listen,” said Yahweh of Armies;
• Song 3:1–2By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him.
• Lam 3:8Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
• Matt 15:22–28Behold, a Canaanite woman came out from those borders, and cried, saying, “Have mercy on me, Lord, you son of David! My daughter is severely possessed by a demon!”
• Ps 77:3I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah.
• Ps 30:7You, Yahweh, when you favored me, made my mountain stand strong; but when you hid your face, I was troubled.
• Isa 50:2Why, when I came, was there no one? when I called, why was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can’t redeem? or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea. I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst.
• Matt 26:75Peter remembered the word which Jesus had said to him, “Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” He went out and wept bitterly.
• Isa 58:2Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways. As a nation that did righteousness, and didn’t forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments. They delight to draw near to God.
• 2 Sam 16:10The king said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? Because he curses, and because Yahweh has said to him, ‘Curse David;’ who then shall say, ‘Why have you done so?’”
• Isa 12:1In that day you will say, “I will give thanks to you, Yahweh; for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you comfort me.

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