Verse 6

I opened for my beloved, but my lover had already turned and gone away. I fell into despair when he departed. I looked for him but did not find him; I called him but he did not answer me.

Referenced Verses

  • Song 5:2 : 2 The Trials of Love: The Beloved’s Dream of Losing Her LoverThe Beloved about Her Lover: I was asleep, but my mind was dreaming. Listen! My lover is knocking at the door! The Lover to His Beloved:“Open for me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one! My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.”
  • Song 5:4 : 4 My lover thrust his hand through the hole, and my feelings were stirred for him.
  • Song 6:1 : 1 The Lost Lover FoundThe Maidens to the Beloved: Where has your beloved gone, O most beautiful among women? Where has your beloved turned? Tell us, that we may seek him with you.
  • Isa 8:17 : 17 I will wait patiently for the LORD, who has rejected the family of Jacob; I will wait for him.
  • Isa 12:1 : 1 At that time you will say:“I praise you, O LORD, for even though you were angry with me, your anger subsided, and you consoled me.
  • Isa 50:2 : 2 Why does no one challenge me when I come? Why does no one respond when I call? Is my hand too weak to deliver you? Do I lack the power to rescue you? Look, with a mere shout I can dry up the sea; I can turn streams into a desert, so the fish rot away and die from lack of water.
  • Isa 54:6-8 : 6 “Indeed, the LORD will call you back like a wife who has been abandoned and suffers from depression, like a young wife when she has been rejected,” says your God. 7 “For a short time I abandoned you, but with great compassion I will gather you. 8 In a burst of anger I rejected you momentarily, but with lasting devotion I will have compassion on you,” says your protector, the LORD.
  • Isa 57:16 : 16 For I will not be hostile forever or perpetually angry, for then man’s spirit would grow faint before me, the life-giving breath I created.
  • Isa 58:2 : 2 They seek me day after day; they want to know my requirements, like a nation that does what is right and does not reject the law of their God. They ask me for just decrees; they want to be near God.
  • Lam 3:8 : 8 Also, when I cry out desperately for help, he has shut out my prayer.
  • Hos 5:6 : 6 The Futility of Sacrificial Ritual without Moral Obedience Although they bring their flocks and herds to seek the favor of the LORD, They will not find him– he has withdrawn himself from them!
  • Hos 5:15 : 15 Then I will return again to my lair until they have suffered their punishment. Then they will seek me; in their distress they will earnestly seek me.
  • Zech 7:13 : 13 “‘It then came about that just as I cried out, but they would not obey, so they will cry out, but I will not listen,’ the LORD of Heaven’s Armies had said.
  • Matt 15:22-28 : 22 A Canaanite woman from that area came and cried out,“Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is horribly demon-possessed!” 23 But he did not answer her a word. Then his disciples came and begged him,“Send her away, because she keeps on crying out after us.” 24 So he answered,“I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” 25 But she came and bowed down before him and said,“Lord, help me!” 26 “It is not right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs,” he said. 27 “Yes, Lord,” she replied,“but even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters’ table.” 28 Then Jesus answered her,“Woman, your faith is great! Let what you want be done for you.” And her daughter was healed from that hour.
  • Matt 26:75 : 75 Then Peter remembered what Jesus had said:“Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” And he went outside and wept bitterly.
  • Mark 14:72 : 72 Immediately a rooster crowed a second time. Then Peter remembered what Jesus had said to him:“Before a rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.” And he broke down and wept.
  • Luke 22:61-62 : 61 Then the Lord turned and looked straight at Peter, and Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said to him,“Before a rooster crows today, you will deny me three times.” 62 And he went outside and wept bitterly.
  • Rev 3:19 : 19 All those I love, I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent!
  • Gen 42:28 : 28 He said to his brothers,“My money was returned! Here it is in my sack!” They were dismayed; they turned trembling to one another and said,“What in the world has God done to us?”
  • 1 Sam 28:6 : 6 So Saul inquired of the LORD, but the LORD did not answer him– not by dreams nor by Urim nor by the prophets.
  • 2 Sam 16:10 : 10 But the king said,“What do we have in common, you sons of Zeruiah? If he curses because the LORD has said to him,‘Curse David!’, who can say to him,‘Why have you done this?’”
  • Ps 22:1-2 : 1 For the music director; according to the tune“Morning Doe;” a psalm of David. My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? I groan in prayer, but help seems far away. 2 My God, I cry out during the day, but you do not answer, and during the night my prayers do not let up.
  • Ps 28:1 : 1 By David. To you, O LORD, I cry out! My protector, do not ignore me! If you do not respond to me, I will join those who are descending into the grave.
  • Ps 30:7 : 7 O LORD, in your good favor you made me secure. Then you rejected me and I was terrified.
  • Ps 69:3 : 3 I am exhausted from shouting for help; my throat is sore; my eyes grow tired of looking for my God.
  • Ps 77:3 : 3 I said,“I will remember God while I groan; I will think about him while my strength leaves me.”(Selah)
  • Ps 80:4 : 4 O LORD God of Heaven’s Armies! How long will you remain angry at your people while they pray to you?
  • Ps 88:9-9 : 9 My eyes grow weak because of oppression. I call out to you, O LORD, all day long; I spread out my hands in prayer to you. 10 Do you accomplish amazing things for the dead? Do the departed spirits rise up and give you thanks?(Selah) 11 Is your loyal love proclaimed in the grave, or your faithfulness in the place of the dead? 12 Are your amazing deeds experienced in the dark region, or your deliverance in the land of oblivion? 13 As for me, I cry out to you, O LORD; in the morning my prayer confronts you. 14 O LORD, why do you reject me, and pay no attention to me?
  • Prov 1:28 : 28 Then they will call to me, but I will not answer; they will diligently seek me, but they will not find me.
  • Song 3:1-2 : 1 The Lost Lover is FoundThe Beloved about Her Lover: All night long on my bed I longed for my lover. I longed for him but he never appeared. 2 “I will arise and look all around throughout the town, and throughout the streets and squares; I will search for my beloved.” I searched for him but I did not find him.