THEOSISSong of Songs 1:4Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
I am black but beautiful, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Cedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
מָשְׁכֵ֖נִי אַחֲרֶ֣יךָ נָּר֑וּצָה הֱבִיאַ֨נִי הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ חֲדָרָ֗יו נָגִ֤ילָה וְנִשְׂמְחָה֙ בָּ֔ךְ נַזְכִּ֤ירָה דֹדֶ֙יךָ֙ מִיַּ֔יִן מֵישָׁרִ֖ים אֲהֵבֽוּךָ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Hos 11:4I will draw them with the cords of Adam, with the bands of love: and I will be to them as one that taketh off the yoke on their jaws: and I put his meat to him that he might eat.
- John 6:44No man can come to me, except the Father, who hath sent me, draw him. And I will raise him up in the last day.
- Ps 45 (44):14
- Ps 45 (44):15
- John 12:32And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all things to myself.
- Jer 31:3The Lord hath appeared from afar to me. Yea I have loved thee with an everlasting love, therefore have I drawn thee, taking pity on thee.
- Song 3:4When I had a little passed by them, I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him: and I will not let him go, till I bring him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that bore me.
- Matt 25:10Now whilst they went to buy the bridegroom came: and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage. And the door was shut.