Song of Songs 5:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you see my loved one, what will you say to him? That I am overcome with love.

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Referenced Verses

  • Song 2:7 : 7 I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes of the field, do not let love be moved till it is ready.
  • Song 2:5 : 5 Make me strong with wine-cakes, let me be comforted with apples; I am overcome with love.
  • Ps 42:1-3 : 1 <To the chief music-maker. Maschil. Of the sons of Korah.> Like the desire of the roe for the water-streams, so is my soul's desire for you, O God. 2 My soul is dry for need of God, the living God; when may I come and see the face of God? 3 My tears have been my food day and night, while they keep saying to me, Where is your God?
  • Ps 63:1-3 : 1 <A Psalm. Of David. When he was in the waste land of Judah.> O God, you are my God; early will I make my search for you: my soul is dry for need of you, my flesh is wasted with desire for you, as a dry and burning land where no water is; 2 To see your power and your glory, as I have seen you in the holy place. 3 Because your mercy is better than life, my lips will give you praise.
  • Ps 77:1-3 : 1 <To the chief music-maker. After Jeduthun. Of Asaph. A Psalm.> I was crying to God with my voice; even to God with my voice, and he gave ear to me. 2 In the day of my trouble, my heart was turned to the Lord: my hand was stretched out in the night without resting; my soul would not be comforted. 3 I will keep God in memory, with sounds of grief; my thoughts are troubled, and my spirit is overcome. (Selah.)
  • Ps 119:81-83 : 81 <CAPH> My soul is wasted with desire for your salvation: but I have hope in your word. 82 My eyes are full of weariness with searching for your word, saying, When will you give me comfort? 83 For I have become like a wine-skin black with smoke; but I still keep the memory of your rules.
  • Song 3:5 : 5 I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes of the field, let not love be moved till it is ready.
  • Song 8:4 : 4 I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, do not let love be moved till it is ready.
  • Rom 15:30 : 30 Now I make request to you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that you will be working together with me in your prayers to God for me;
  • Gal 6:1-2 : 1 Brothers, if a man is taken in any wrongdoing, you who are of the Spirit will put such a one right in a spirit of love; keeping watch on yourself, for fear that you yourself may be tested. 2 Take on yourselves one another's troubles, and so keep the law of Christ.
  • Jas 5:16 : 16 So then, make a statement of your sins to one another, and say prayers for one another so that you may be made well. The prayer of a good man is full of power in its working.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Song 5:9-10
    2 verses
    84%

    9 What is your loved one more than another, O fairest among women? What is your loved one more than another, that you say this to us?

    10 My loved one is white and red, the chief among ten thousand.

  • Song 3:1-6
    6 verses
    84%

    1 By night on my bed I was looking for him who is the love of my soul: I was looking for him, but I did not see him.

    2 I will get up now and go about the town, in the streets and in the wide ways I will go after him who is the love of my soul: I went after him, but I did not see him.

    3 The watchmen who go about the town came by me; to them I said, Have you seen him who is my heart's desire?

    4 I was but a little way from them, when I came face to face with him who is the love of my soul. I took him by the hands, and did not let him go, till I had taken him into my mother's house, and into the room of her who gave me birth.

    5 I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes of the field, let not love be moved till it is ready.

    6 Who is this coming out of the waste places like pillars of smoke, perfumed with sweet spices, with all the spices of the trader?

  • Song 8:3-6
    4 verses
    83%

    3 His left hand would be under my head, and his right hand about me.

    4 I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, do not let love be moved till it is ready.

    5 Who is this, who comes up from the waste places, resting on her loved one? It was I who made you awake under the apple-tree, where your mother gave you birth; there she was in pain at your birth.

    6 Put me as a sign on your heart, as a sign on your arm; love is strong as death, and wrath bitter as the underworld: its coals are coals of fire; violent are its flames.

  • Song 2:5-10
    6 verses
    83%

    5 Make me strong with wine-cakes, let me be comforted with apples; I am overcome with love.

    6 His left hand is under my head, and his right hand is round about me.

    7 I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes of the field, do not let love be moved till it is ready.

    8 The voice of my loved one! See, he comes dancing on the mountains, stepping quickly on the hills.

    9 My loved one is like a roe; see, he is on the other side of our wall, he is looking in at the windows, letting himself be seen through the spaces.

    10 My loved one said to me, Get up, my love, my fair one, and come away.

  • Song 5:6-7
    2 verses
    82%

    6 I made the door open to my loved one; but my loved one had taken himself away, and was gone, my soul was feeble when his back was turned on me; I went after him, but I did not come near him; I said his name, but he gave me no answer.

    7 The keepers who go about the town overtook me; they gave me blows and wounds; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.

  • Song 6:1-5
    5 verses
    77%

    1 Where is your loved one gone, O most fair among women? Where is your loved one turned away, that we may go looking for him with you?

    2 My loved one is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to take food in the gardens, and to get lilies.

    3 I am for my loved one, and my loved one is for me; he takes food among the lilies.

    4 You are beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, as fair as Jerusalem; you are to be feared like an army with flags.

    5 Let your eyes be turned away from me; see, they have overcome me; your hair is as a flock of goats which take their rest on the side of Gilead.

  • Song 1:7-9
    3 verses
    77%

    7 Say, O love of my soul, where you give food to your flock, and where you make them take their rest in the heat of the day; why have I to be as one wandering by the flocks of your friends?

    8 If you have not knowledge, O most beautiful among women, go on your way in the footsteps of the flock, and give your young goats food by the tents of the keepers.

    9 I have made a comparison of you, O my love, to a horse in Pharaoh's carriages.

  • Song 7:10
    76%

    10 I am for my loved one, and his desire is for me.

  • Song 5:1-3
    3 verses
    75%

    1 I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride; to take my myrrh with my spice; my wax with my honey; my wine with my milk. Take meat, O friends; take wine, yes, be overcome with love.

    2 I am sleeping, but my heart is awake; it is the sound of my loved one at the door, saying, Be open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my very beautiful one; my head is wet with dew, and my hair with the drops of the night.

    3 I have put off my coat; how may I put it on? My feet are washed; how may I make them unclean?

  • Song 5:16
    75%

    16 His mouth is most sweet; yes, he is all beautiful. This is my loved one, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

  • Song 8:13-14
    2 verses
    74%

    13 You who have your resting-place in the gardens, the friends give ear to your voice; make me give ear to it.

    14 Come quickly, my loved one, and be like a roe on the mountains of spice.

  • Song 4:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9 You have taken away my heart, my sister, my bride; you have taken away my heart, with one look you have taken it, with one chain of your neck!

    10 How fair is your love, my sister! How much better is your love than wine, and the smell of your oils than any perfume!

  • Song 1:4-5
    2 verses
    73%

    4 Take me to you, and we will go after you: the king has taken me into his house. We will be glad and full of joy in you, we will give more thought to your love than to wine: rightly are they your lovers.

    5 I am dark, but fair of form, O daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.

  • Song 7:6
    73%

    6 How beautiful and how sweet you are, O love, for delight.

  • Song 1:13-15
    3 verses
    72%

    13 As a bag of myrrh is my well-loved one to me, when he is at rest all night between my breasts.

    14 My love is to me as a branch of the cypress-tree in the vine-gardens of En-gedi.

    15 See, you are fair, my love, you are fair; you have the eyes of a dove.

  • Song 2:14
    72%

    14 O my dove, you are in the holes of the mountain sides, in the cracks of the high hills; let me see your face, let your voice come to my ears; for sweet is your voice, and your face is fair.

  • Song 8:1
    72%

    1 Oh that you were my brother, who took milk from my mother's breasts! When I came to you in the street, I would give you kisses; yes, I would not be looked down on.

  • Song 7:12
    72%

    12 Let us go out early to the vine-gardens; let us see if the vine is in bud, if it has put out its young fruit, and the pomegranate is in flower. There I will give you my love.

  • Song 2:2
    72%

    2 As the lily-flower among the thorns of the waste, so is my love among the daughters.

  • Song 4:6
    72%

    6 Till the evening comes, and the sky slowly becomes dark, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.

  • Song 6:10
    71%

    10 Who is she, looking down as the morning light, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, who is to be feared like an army with flags?

  • Song 2:16
    71%

    16 My loved one is mine, and I am his: he takes his food among the flowers.