Quotes about Longing
Listen! My beloved approaches. Look! Here he comes, leaping across the mountains, bounding over the hills.
- Song of Solomon 2:8
My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look, he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, peering through the lattice.
- Song of Solomon 2:9
Before the day breaks and shadows flee, turn, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of Bether.
- Song of Solomon 2:17
On my bed at night I sought the one I love; I sought him, but did not find him.
- Song of Solomon 3:1
I will arise now and go about the city, through the streets and squares. I will seek the one I love. So I sought him but did not find him.
- Song of Solomon 3:2
I sleep, but my heart is awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking: “Open to 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 of Solomon 5:2
My beloved put his hand to the latch; my heart pounded for him.
- Song of Solomon 5:4
I rose up to open for my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with flowing myrrh on the handles of the bolt.
- Song of Solomon 5:5
I opened for my beloved, but he had turned and gone. My heart sank at his departure. I sought him, but did not find him. I called, but he did not answer.
- Song of Solomon 5:6
O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you, if you find my beloved, tell him I am sick with love.
- Song of Solomon 5:8
Turn your eyes away from me, for they have overcome me. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down from Gilead.
- Song of Solomon 6:5
Come back, come back, O Shulammite! Come back, come back, that we may gaze upon you. Why do you look at the Shulammite, as on the dance of Mahanaim?
- Song of Solomon 6:13