Verse 4
Scarcely had I passed them by when I found my beloved! I held onto him tightly and would not let him go until I brought him to my mother’s house, to the bedroom chamber of the one who conceived me.
Referenced Verses
- Song 8:2 : 2 I would lead you and bring you to my mother’s house, the one who taught me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the nectar of my pomegranates.
- Prov 4:13 : 13 Hold on to instruction, do not let it go; protect it, because it is your life.
- Prov 8:17 : 17 I will love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently will find me.
- Song 6:12 : 12 I was beside myself with joy! There please give me your myrrh, O daughter of my princely people.
- Song 7:5 : 5 Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel. The locks of your hair are like royal tapestries– the king is held captive in its tresses!
- Gen 32:26 : 26 Then the man said,“Let me go, for the dawn is breaking.”“I will not let you go,” Jacob replied,“unless you bless me.”
- Isa 45:19 : 19 I have not spoken in secret, in some hidden place. I did not tell Jacob’s descendants,‘Seek me in vain!’ I am the LORD, the one who speaks honestly, who makes reliable announcements.
- Isa 49:14-18 : 14 The Lord Remembers Zion“Zion said,‘The LORD has abandoned me, the Lord has forgotten me.’ 15 Can a woman forget her baby who nurses at her breast? Can she withhold compassion from the child she has borne? Even if mothers were to forget, I could never forget you! 16 Look, I have inscribed your name on my palms; your walls are constantly before me. 17 Your children hurry back, while those who destroyed and devastated you depart. 18 Look all around you! All of them gather to you. As surely as I live,” says the LORD,“you will certainly wear all of them like jewelry; you will put them on as if you were a bride.
- Isa 54:1-3 : 1 Zion Will Be Secure“Shout for joy, O barren one who has not given birth! Give a joyful shout and cry out, you who have not been in labor! For the children of the desolate one are more numerous than the children of the married woman,” says the LORD. 2 Make your tent larger, stretch your tent curtains farther out! Spare no effort, lengthen your ropes, and pound your stakes deep. 3 For you will spread out to the right and to the left; your children will conquer nations and will resettle desolate cities.
- Isa 55:6-7 : 6 Seek the LORD while he makes himself available; call to him while he is nearby! 7 The wicked need to abandon their lifestyle and sinful people their plans. They should return to the LORD, and he will show mercy to them, and to their God, for he will freely forgive them.
- Jer 29:13 : 13 When you seek me in prayer and worship, you will find me available to you. If you seek me with all your heart and soul,
- Lam 3:25 : 25 ט(Tet) The LORD is good to those who trust in him, to the one who seeks him.
- Hos 12:3-4 : 3 Israel Must Return to the God of Jacob In the womb he attacked his brother; in his manly vigor he struggled with God. 4 He struggled with an angel and prevailed; he wept and begged for his favor. He found God at Bethel, and there he spoke with him!
- Matt 7:7 : 7 Ask, Seek, Knock“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you.
- Matt 28:9 : 9 But Jesus met them, saying,“Greetings!” They came to him, held on to his feet and worshiped him.
- John 20:16-17 : 16 Jesus said to her,“Mary.” She turned and said to him in Aramaic,“Rabboni”(which means Teacher). 17 Jesus replied,“Do not touch me, for I have not yet ascended to my Father. Go to my brothers and tell them,‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”
- Gal 4:26 : 26 But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.
- Rev 3:11-12 : 11 I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have so that no one can take away your crown. 12 The one who conquers I will make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will never depart from it. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God(the new Jerusalem that comes down out of heaven from my God), and my new name as well.