Song of Songs 6:12

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Before I was conscious of it, ...

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 31:18-20 : 18 Certainly Ephraim's words of grief have come to my ears, You have given me training and I have undergone it like a young cow unused to the yoke: let me be turned and come back, for you are the Lord my God. 19 Truly, after I had been turned, I had regret for my ways; and after I had got knowledge, I made signs of sorrow: I was put to shame, truly, I was covered with shame, because I had to undergo the shame of my early years. 20 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he the child of my delight? for whenever I say things against him, I still keep him in my memory: so my heart is troubled for him; I will certainly have mercy on him, says the Lord.
  • Hos 11:8-9 : 8 How may I give you up, O Ephraim? how may I be your saviour, O Israel? how may I make you like Admah? how may I do to you as I did to Zeboim? My heart is turned in me, it is soft with pity. 9 I will not put into effect the heat of my wrath; I will not again send destruction on Ephraim; for I am God and not man, the Holy One among you; I will not put an end to you.
  • Luke 15:20 : 20 And he got up and went to his father. But while he was still far away, his father saw him and was moved with pity for him and went quickly and took him in his arms and gave him a kiss.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Song 1:4-9
    6 verses
    76%

    4Take 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.

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

    6Let not your eyes be turned on me, because I am dark, because I was looked on by the sun; my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vine-gardens; but my vine-garden I have not kept.

    7Say, 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?

    8If 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.

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

  • Song 6:13
    75%

    13Come back, come back, O Shulammite; come back, come back, so that our eyes may see you. What will you see in the Shulammite? A sword-dance.

  • Song 6:10-11
    2 verses
    75%

    10Who 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?

    11I went down into the garden of nuts to see the green plants of the valley, and to see if the vine was in bud, and the pomegranate-trees were in flower.

  • Song 3:1-6
    6 verses
    74%

    1By 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.

    2I 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.

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

    4I 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.

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

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

  • Song 4:6
    72%

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

  • Song 7:10-12
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    10I am for my loved one, and his desire is for me.

    11Come, my loved one, let us go out into the field; let us take rest among the cypress-trees.

    12Let 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 5:6-8
    3 verses
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    6I 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.

    7The 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.

    8I 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.

  • Song 6:1-5
    5 verses
    71%

    1Where 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?

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

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

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

    5Let 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 1:12-14
    3 verses
    70%

    12While the king is seated at his table, my spices send out their perfume.

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

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

  • Song 2:16-17
    2 verses
    70%

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

    17Till the evening comes, and the sky slowly becomes dark, come, my loved one, and be like a roe on the mountains of Bether.

  • Song 2:10
    70%

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

  • Song 8:13-14
    2 verses
    70%

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

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

  • Song 2:6-8
    3 verses
    70%

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

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

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

  • Song 5:1-2
    2 verses
    69%

    1I 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.

    2I 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.

  • Song 7:6
    69%

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

  • Song 2:3-4
    2 verses
    69%

    3As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood, so is my loved one among the sons. I took my rest under his shade with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.

    4He took me to the house of wine, and his flag over me was love.

  • Song 8:4-5
    2 verses
    69%

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

    5Who 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.

  • Song 8:10
    68%

    10I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers; then was I in his eyes as one to whom good chance had come.

  • Song 4:9
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    9You 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!

  • Song 8:1-2
    2 verses
    68%

    1Oh 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.

    2I would take you by the hand into my mother's house, and she would be my teacher. I would give you drink of spiced wine, drink of the pomegranate.

  • Jer 31:26
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    26At this, awaking from my sleep, I saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.