Song of Songs 5:7

Searching the city, she is beaten and mistreated by the watchmen. It depicts the suffering endured in her desperate search.

Cross-references · 22

• Song 3:3The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?
• Acts 5:40–41And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.
• Isa 6:10–11Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
• Ps 141:5Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.
• Isa 62:6I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence,
• Luke 6:22Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man’s sake.
• Hos 6:5Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.
• Heb 11:36–37And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:
• Acts 26:9–10I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
• 2 Cor 11:13For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
• 1 Pet 4:14–16If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.
• Acts 20:29–30For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
• 1 Cor 4:10–13We are fools for Christ’s sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.
• Matt 23:2Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat:
• Phil 3:6Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
• Heb 12:2Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
• Matt 23:29–36Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,
• Rev 17:5–6And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
• John 16:2They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
• Song 8:11Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.
• Matt 21:33–41Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:
• Hos 9:7–8The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.

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