Songs 3:2 Cross References

The Song of Songs 3:2

2: So I said to myself, `I will get up now and roam the city, searching for him in all its streets and squares. But my search was in vain.

Then he returned to the disciples and found them asleep. He said to Peter, "Couldn't you stay awake and watch with me even one hour?
Keep alert and pray. Otherwise temptation will overpower you. For though the spirit is willing enough, the body is weak!"

Yet no one calls on your name or pleads with you for mercy. Therefore, you have turned away from us and turned us over to our sins.

For you are God, my only safe haven. Why have you tossed me aside? Why must I wander around in darkness, oppressed by my enemies?
Send out your light and your truth; let them guide me. Let them lead me to your holy mountain, to the place where you live.
There I will go to the altar of God, to God--the source of all my joy. I will praise you with my harp, O God, my God!
Why am I discouraged? Why so sad? I will put my hope in God! I will praise him again--my Savior and my God!

"The servant returned and told his master what they had said. His master was angry and said, 'Go quickly into the streets and alleys of the city and invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind.'
After the servant had done this, he reported, 'There is still room for more.'
So his master said, 'Go out into the country lanes and behind the hedges and urge anyone you find to come, so that the house will be full.

I jumped up to open it. My hands dripped with perfume, my fingers with lovely myrrh, as I pulled back the bolt.

"Run up and down every street in Jerusalem," says the LORD. "Look high and low; search throughout the city! If you can find even one person who is just and honest, I will not destroy the city.

And where your light shines, it will expose their evil deeds. This is why it is said, "Awake, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will give you light."

I hear the tumult of the raging seas as your waves and surging tides sweep over me.
Through each day the LORD pours his unfailing love upon me, and through each night I sing his songs, praying to God who gives me life.
"O God my rock," I cry, "Why have you forsaken me? Why must I wander in darkness, oppressed by my enemies?"

"Happy are those who listen to me, watching for me daily at my gates, waiting for me outside my home!

Another reason for right living is that you know how late it is; time is running out. Wake up, for the coming of our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.

Has the Lord rejected me forever? Will he never again show me favor?
Is his unfailing love gone forever? Have his promises permanently failed?
Has God forgotten to be kind? Has he slammed the door on his compassion?
And I said, "This is my fate, that the blessings of the Most High have changed to hatred."

My God, my God! Why have you forsaken me? Why do you remain so distant? Why do you ignore my cries for help?
Every day I call to you, my God, but you do not answer. Every night you hear my voice, but I find no relief.

Come to your senses and stop sinning. For to your shame I say that some of you don't even know God.

Wisdom shouts in the streets. She cries out in the public square.
She calls out to the crowds along the main street, and to those in front of city hall.

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