Song of Songs 7 Cross References - NSB

¹ (The Beloved) »How beautiful are your feet in sandals, O prince's daughter! The joints of your thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman. ² »Your navel is like a round goblet. It does not need liquor. Your belly is like a heap of wheat set about with lilies. ³ »Your two breasts are like two young fawns that are twins. ⁴ »Your neck is as a tower of ivory. Your eyes like the fish pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim. Your nose is as the tower of Lebanon that looks toward Damascus. ⁵ »Your head is like Carmel, and the hair of your head like purple; the king is held in the galleries. ⁶ »How fair and how pleasant you are, O love, for delights! ⁷ »Your stature is like a palm tree, and your breasts like clusters of dates. ⁸ »I said, ‘I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs. Also your breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of your nose like apples.’ ⁹ »The roof of your mouth is like the best wine for my beloved.’« (The Shulamite) »The wine goes down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak. ¹⁰ »I belong to my beloved. His desire is toward me. ¹¹ »Come, my beloved, let us go into the field. Let us lodge in the villages. ¹² »Let us get up early to the vineyards. Let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth. There I will give you my love. ¹³ »The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for you, O my beloved.

² Abram said: »O Jehovah God, what will you give me? I continue childless! The heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus.«

¹⁴ During the wheat harvest Reuben went out into the fields. He found some mandrake plants. He brought them to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah: »Please, give me some of your son’s mandrake plants.«

²⁶ He said to him: »Let me go now, for the dawn is near.« But Jacob said: »I will not let you go till you have given me your blessing.«

²² »I will be above the throne of mercy between the angels whenever I meet with you. I will give you all my commandments for the Israelites.

¹⁵ »Prepare the breast piece for decision-making using a skilled craftsman. Make it like the ephod out of gold, violet, purple, and bright red yarn and out of fine linen yarn.

³⁵ »Jehovah made these men highly skilled in all trades. They can do the work of jewelers, carpenters, and designers. They know how to embroider violet, purple and bright red yarn on fine linen. They know how to weave yarn on a loom. They can do all kinds of trades. They are master artists.

²⁵ The Israelites settled in the Amorite towns. They settled in the capital city of Heshbon with its surrounding villages. ²⁶ King Sihon ruled from Heshbon after defeating the Moabites and taking over their land north of the Arnon River gorge.

⁶ Then he set up military camps in their territory. They became his subjects and paid taxes to him. Jehovah made David victorious everywhere.

² The Hall of the Forest of Lebanon was one hundred and fifty feet long, seventy-five feet wide, and forty-five feet high.

¹⁹ the cities where his supplies were kept, the cities for his horses and chariots, and everything else he wanted to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and elsewhere in his kingdom.

¹⁸ The king made a great ivory throne plated with the best gold.

²² For the king had Tarshish-ships at sea with the ships of Hiram. Once every three years the Tarshish-ships came with gold and silver and ivory and apes (monkeys) and peacocks.

³⁹ Everything else that King Ahab did, including an account of his palace decorated with ivory and of all the cities he built, is recorded in The History of the Kings of Israel.

⁶ He also rebuilt Baalath and all the storage cities that he owned. He built all the cities for his chariots, all the cities for his warhorses, and whatever else he wanted to build in Jerusalem, Lebanon, or the entire territory that he governed.

¹⁵ »You will call and I will answer you! You will long for the creature your hands have made.

⁴ I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy. Upon the lyre I will praise you, O God, my God.

⁸ All Your garments are fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia. Stringed instruments from the ivory palaces have made you glad.

¹¹ Then the King will desire your beauty. Bow down to him because he is your Lord.

¹³ The King's daughter is all glorious within. Her clothing is interwoven with gold.

¹⁶ In place of your fathers will be your sons. You will make them princes in all the earth.

²⁴ O God, Your festival processions can be seen by everyone. They are the processions for my God, my king, into the holy place.

²⁵ Who have I in heaven but you? I desire none on earth except you.

³ My lips will praise you because your love (mercy) (loving kindness) (steadfast love) is better than life. ⁴ So I will bless (thank) you as long as I live. I will lift up my hands [in prayer] in your name. ⁵ You satisfy me with the richest foods. My mouth will sing your praise with joyful lips. ⁶ As I lie on my bed, I remember you. Through the long hours of the night, I think about you. ⁷ You have been my help. In the shadow (defense) of your wings, I sing joyfully. ⁸ I cling to you. Your right hand supports (holds) me.

² Jehovah loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwelling places of Jacob.

¹² Righteous people flourish like palm trees and grow tall like the cedars in Lebanon.

⁵ The court of justice sits there. It consists of princes who are David's descendants.

¹² Let our sons in their youth be as grown-up plants, and our daughters as corner pillars fashioned as for a palace.

⁸ This will make you healthy, and you will feel strong.

¹⁷ »I love those who love me. Those who earnestly seek me will find me.

¹¹ Jehovah is pleased with those who fear him, with those who wait with hope for his mercy.

³⁰ I went by the field of the lazy man, and by the vineyard of the man lacking understanding. ³¹ It was all grown over with thorns and nettles, and the wall of stone was broken down.

²⁴ Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweetness to life, and health to the bones.

¹⁰ Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, where you are going.

³ »Your good ointment has a pleasing aroma. Your name is like pure ointment. Therefore the maidens do love you. ⁴ »Draw me away. (Daughters of Jerusalem) »We will run after you.« (The Shulamite) »The king brought me into his chambers.« (Daughters of Jerusalem) »We will be glad and rejoice in you. We will remember your love more than wine!« (The Shulamite) »They are right to love you.«

¹⁰ »Your cheeks are lovely with jewels and your neck with chains of gold.«

¹³ »My beloved is like a cluster of myrrh to me. He will lie all night between my breasts.

¹⁵ (The Beloved) »Behold, you are fair, my love. Behold, you are fair. You have doves' eyes.« ¹⁶ (The Shulamite) »Behold, you are handsome, my beloved, yes, pleasant! Also our bed is green. ¹⁷ »The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir.

³ (The Shulamite) »Just like the apple tree among the trees of the wood so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.«

⁵ »Sustain me with raisin cakes. Refresh me with apples: for I am lovesick.

¹⁰ »My beloved spoke, and said to me, ‘Raise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. ¹¹ »For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone. ¹² ‘The flowers appear on the earth. The time of singing birds has come. The voice of the turtle is heard in our land. ¹³ ‘The fig tree puts forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away!’«

¹³ ‘The fig tree puts forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away!’« ¹⁴ »O my dove, you are in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs. Let me see your countenance. Let me hear your voice. For sweet is your voice, and your countenance is lovely.« ¹⁵ (Her Brothers) »Catch the foxes for us, the little foxes that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.« ¹⁶ (The Shulamite) »My beloved is mine and I am his. He feeds among the lilies.

¹ (The Beloved) »You are beautiful my love, you are beautiful. Your eyes behind your veil are like doves. Your hair is like a flock of goats descending from Mount Gilead.

⁴ »Your neck is like the tower of David built for an armory, on which there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men. ⁵ »Your two breasts are like two young gazelles that are twins, which feed among the lilies.

⁷ »You are all fair, my love. There is no spot in you. ⁸ »Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon! Look from the peak of Mount Amana, from the peak of Mount Shenir and Mount Hermon, from the lions' dens, from the mountains of the leopards.

⁸ »Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon! Look from the peak of Mount Amana, from the peak of Mount Shenir and Mount Hermon, from the lions' dens, from the mountains of the leopards. ⁹ »You have ravished my heart, my sister, and my spouse. You have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain around your neck. ¹⁰ »How fair is your love, my sister, and my spouse! How much better is your love than wine! The smell of your perfume than all spices!

¹³ »Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with ointment,

¹⁶ (The Shulamite) »Awake, O north wind; and come south; blow upon my garden that the spices may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.«

¹⁶ (The Shulamite) »Awake, O north wind; and come south; blow upon my garden that the spices may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.«

² (The Shulamite) »I sleep, but my heart is awake. It is the voice of my beloved that knocks, saying: ‘Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.’«

¹¹ »His head is as the finest gold. His locks are like date clusters, bushy and black as a raven.

¹⁴ »His hands are as gold rings set with beryl. His belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.

¹⁴ »His hands are as gold rings set with beryl. His belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires. ¹⁵ »His legs are like pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold. His countenance is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars. ¹⁶ »His mouth is very sweet: yes, he is altogether handsome. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.«

³ »I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine. He feeds among the lilies.«

⁵ »Turn away your eyes from me, for they have overcome me. Your hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead. ⁶ »Your teeth are like a flock of sheep which go up from the washing, whereof every one looks like twins, and there is not one barren among them.

⁵ »Before the harvest, when blossoms are gone and grapes are ripening from blossoms, he will cut off the shoots with pruning shears and chop off and take away the spreading branches.

¹¹ (The Shulamite) »I went down into the garden of nut trees to see the fruits of the valley, to see whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranates budded.

³ »Your two breasts are like two young fawns that are twins.

⁵ »Your head is like Carmel, and the hair of your head like purple; the king is held in the galleries. ⁶ »How fair and how pleasant you are, O love, for delights!

⁶ »How fair and how pleasant you are, O love, for delights!

⁸ »I said, ‘I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs. Also your breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of your nose like apples.’

¹⁰ »I belong to my beloved. His desire is toward me.

⁸ (The Shulamite’s Brother) »We have a little sister, and she has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister in the day when she will be spoken for?

¹⁸ The money she earns by commerce will be dedicated to Jehovah. She will not store it away, but those who worship Jehovah will use her money to buy the food and the clothing they need.

² The desert will sing and shout for joy! It will be beautiful like the Lebanon Mountains. It will be fertile as the fields of Carmel and Sharon. Everyone will see Jehovah’s splendor. They will see his greatness and power.

⁴ »Do not be afraid. You will not suffer shame. Do not fear disgrace. You will not be humiliated. You will forget the shame of your youth and remember no more the reproach of your widowhood.«

³ »Listen to me, O house of Jacob, all you who remain of the house of Israel. I have upheld you since you were conceived. I have carried you since your birth.

¹⁰ »All who love Jerusalem, be happy and rejoice with her. All who mourn for her be glad with her.

⁵ »Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I set you apart for my holy purpose. I appointed you to be a prophet to the nations.«

⁵ »They are like scarecrows in cucumber fields. They cannot speak. They must be carried, for they cannot walk! Do not fear them! For they can do no harm and they can do no good.«

⁶ »Many camels will cover your land, young camels from Midian and Ephah. Everyone from Sheba will come. They will bring gold and incense. They will sing the praises of Jehovah. ⁷ »All of the flocks from Kedar will gather and come to you. The rams of Nebaioth will serve you. They will be sacrificed as acceptable offerings on my altar. So I will honor my beautiful Temple.

⁴ »You will no longer be called »Deserted,« and your land will no longer be called »Destroyed.« You will be named »My Delight.« Your land will be named »Married« (owned as a wife). Jehovah is delighted with you, and your land will be married. ⁵ »Your sons will marry you like a young man marries a woman. Your God will rejoice over the same way a bridegroom rejoices over his bride.

⁸ Jehovah has sworn with his right hand and with his mighty arm (of power): »I will never again let your enemies eat your grain, nor will foreigners drink the new wine that you produced. ⁹ »Those who harvest grain will eat it and praise Jehovah. Those who gather grapes will drink wine in my holy courtyards.«

⁴¹ »I will enjoy blessing them. With all my heart and all my being I will faithfully plant them in this land.’«

⁴⁰ »There in the land, on my holy mountain, the high mountain of Israel, all you people of Israel will worship me. I will be pleased with you and will expect you to bring me your sacrifices, your best offerings, and your holy gifts. ⁴¹ ‘After I bring you out of the countries where you have been scattered and gather you together, I will accept the sacrifices that you burn, and the nations will see that I am holy.’

³² »The statue had a head of pure gold, chest and arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of brass.

¹⁴ Shepherd your people, the flock of your heritage, with your staff. They dwell alone in the forest in the midst of Carmel. Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.

¹⁷ »Jehovah your God is with you! He is a mighty one. He will exult over you with joy. He will refresh you with his love. He will rejoice over you with shouts of joy.

¹⁵ »Jehovah of Hosts will defend them! They will devour and trample on the sling stones. They will drink and be boisterous with the wine. They will be filled like the sacrificial basins by the corners of the altar. ¹⁶ »Jehovah their God will save them in that day like the flock of his people. They will be like the stones in a crown lifted high over his land. ¹⁷ »How great is his goodness! How great is his beauty! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.«

⁵² And he said to them: »Every scribe (journalist) (writer) who has been made a disciple to the kingdom of heaven is like a man that is a householder, who brings out of his treasure things new and old.«

²⁰ »Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in their midst.«

⁴⁰ »The King will answer: ‘To the extent that you did it to one of the least of my brothers, you did it to me.’

²⁰ »Teach them to observe all the things I have commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.«

²² »The father called his servants. He said: ‘Hurry and bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and shoes on his feet.

²¹ »He that has my commandments, and obeys them loves me. My Father will love the person who loves me. I will love him and disclose myself to him.« ²² Judas (not Iscariot) asked him: »Lord, what will happen that you will disclose yourself to us, and not to the world?« ²³ Jesus answered: »If a man loves me, he will obey my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and dwell with him.

⁸ »My Father is glorified when you bear much fruit. You will be my disciples.

²⁴ »Father, I desire that these whom you gave me may be with me where I am. I want them to see the glory you have given me. For you loved me before the creation of the world.

¹¹ »Cretes and Arabians, we hear them speak in our language the wonderful works of God.« ¹² And they were all amazed and were in doubt. They asked each other: »What does this mean?« ¹³ Others mockingly said: »These men are full of new wine.«

⁴⁶ They continued daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house. They ate their food with gladness and singleness of heart. ⁴⁷ As they praised God, they had favor with all the people. God added to the congregation daily those being saved.

³¹ When they prayed, the place where they assembled together was shaken. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness. ³² The congregation that believed was of one heart and mind. No one claimed his or her own possessions for everything was common property.

³⁶ After time passed Paul said to Barnabas: »Let us go again and visit our brothers in every city where we have preached the Word of God, and see how they are doing.«

³⁰ He brought them out and asked: »Sirs, what must I do to be saved?« ³¹ They said: »Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your house.« ³² They spoke the Word of God to him and those in his house. ³³ That very hour of the night the jailer took them and washed their wounds. Then he and all his family were baptized. ³⁴ He took them to his house and fed them. They rejoiced along with his entire house, having believed in God.

²³ »Last night an angel of the God of whom I serve stood beside me.

⁴ Brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ; that you should be joined to another, even to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God.

⁹ It is written: »Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, and it has not entered into the heart of man, the things God prepared for those who love him.« (Isaiah 64:4)

¹¹ We also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation (restoration) (atonement) (divine favor).

¹¹ You know the time. It is the hour for you to awake from sleep. Now our salvation is nearer than when we became believers.

²⁵ Now I go to Jerusalem to minister to the holy ones. ²⁶ It pleased those of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor holy ones in Jerusalem. ²⁷ It pleased them to do so and they are debtors for this. If the nations have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister to them in physical things.

¹⁹ What? Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit? That one (Greek: »hos he ho« which, that one) is in you. You received it from God. You are not your own. ²⁰ You are bought with a price! Therefore glorify God in your body.

⁸ But food will not recommend us to God. If we do not eat we are not worse. If we eat we are not better. ⁹ Be careful that this freedom does not become a stumbling block to those who are weak.

¹⁴ Thanks to God, who always leads us in triumph (triumphal procession) in Christ. He makes known through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.

¹⁴ For the love of Christ compels us to judge, that one died for all and therefore all died. ¹⁵ He died for all that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for him who died for their sakes and rose again.

¹⁸ I will be a Father to you, and you will be to me sons and daughters, said Jehovah God the Almighty. (Hosea 1:10)

² On one day of the week let every one of you set something aside, as God has prospered you, that there be no contributions collected when I come. (Greek: heis, number one)

²⁰ I have been impaled with Christ. It is no longer I that live, but Christ lives in me. The life that I now live in the flesh (physical body) I live by faith. This is the faith that is in the Son of God. He loved me and gave himself up for me.

²² The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faith, ²³ meekness (mildness), self-control; against such there is no law.

¹⁷ May the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, give you a spirit (mental disposition) of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him. ¹⁸ Have the eyes of your heart enlightened, that you may know the hope of his calling, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the holy ones,

²² He (God) put all things in subjection under his feet, and made him head over all things to the congregation,

¹⁷ May Christ dwell in your hearts through faith to the end that you will be rooted and grounded in love. ¹⁸ May you be able to comprehend with all the holy ones the breadth and length and height and depth. ¹⁹ And may you know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge. May you be filled with all the fullness of God.

¹³ until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full-grown (mature) man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.

¹⁵ By speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in all things to him. For he, Christ, is the head. ¹⁶ The entire body is properly framed and fitted together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in due measure of each individual part. It makes the body increase by building itself in love.

²⁹ Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth. Speak what is good for understanding as the need may be, that it may give grace (divine favor) to those who hear.

⁹ for the fruit of the light (life) (spirit) consists of all goodness and righteousness and truth.

⁵ Examine yourselves, whether you are in the faith. Prove your own selves. Do you not know this about yourselves that Jesus Christ is with you, unless you are disqualified?

¹⁵ Shod your feet with the preparation of the good news of peace.

²⁴ Grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an incorruptible (sincere) (principled) (unending) love.

⁹ I pray that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment. ¹⁰ This way you may approve (test) the things that are excellent (of more value). May you be sincere and without offense (blameless) to others till the day of Christ. ¹¹ Be filled with the fruits of righteousness through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God. (John 15:5) (Galatians 5:22, 23)

²⁷ Let your manner of life be worthy of the good news about Christ. Whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your conduct, that you stand fast in one spirit (common purpose) (mental disposition) (vital principle), with one mind striving together for the faith of the good news.

¹⁸ He is the head of the body, the congregation. He is the beginning (commencement), the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence (first place).

¹⁹ not holding fast to the head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and bands, grows with the growth from God.

¹⁶ Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you with all wisdom. Teach and admonish one another with psalms, praises to God, and spiritual songs. Sing with gratitude in your hearts to God. ¹⁷ Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus. Give thanks to God the Father through him.

¹⁷ Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus. Give thanks to God the Father through him.

⁶ Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

⁵ For this cause, when I could no longer bear it, I inquired about your faith. I feared that the tempter might have tempted you, and our labor would be in vain. ⁶ Timothy came from you to us, and brought us good news about your faith and love. We want you to have good memories of us always, and that you desire to see us just as we also desire to see you.

¹³ I do not want you to be ignorant brothers, concerning those who are asleep (in death). You do not need to sorrow like others who have no hope. ¹⁴ If we believe that Jesus died and rose again, God will bring with him those who sleep in Jesus.

¹³ And again: »I will put my trust in him.« And again: »Behold, the children that Jehovah has given me.« (Isaiah 8:18)

¹⁵ And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

¹⁶ Let us approach the throne of grace (loving-kindness) with confidence, that we may receive mercy, and find grace for help in time of need.

¹⁴ But solid food belongs to mature people. It belongs to those who by reason of use have their senses trained to know the difference between good and evil.

¹⁵ See that no one misses the grace of God; that no bitter root spring up to cause trouble and defile many.

¹⁵ Let us continually offer a sacrifice of praise to God through him [Jesus], that is, the fruit of lips that make confession (give thanks and offer praise) to his name.

¹¹ If any man speaks, speak as it were utterances of God. If any man ministers, minister with the strength which God supplies! May God be glorified in all things through Jesus Christ. The glory and dominion belong to God forever and ever. Amen.

¹⁴ His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were like a flame of fire.

¹³ Then I heard a voice from heaven say: »Write: Blessed are the dead who die in union with the Lord from this time forward: Yes, says the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and their works follow them.«