Song of Solomon 5:6-8
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. I encountered the watchmen on their rounds of the city. They beat me and bruised me; they took away my cloak, those guardians of the walls. O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you, if you find my beloved, tell him I am sick with love.
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3 songs meet this passage
Fading Like a Flower (Every Time You Leave) · Roxette
resonates with Song of Solomon 5:6-8
The ache of love that withdraws and leaves the lover faint echoes this biblical picture of lovesickness, showing such longing isn't foreign to Scripture's own poetry.
“she don't feel the same about us in her bones”
Story Of My Life · One Direction
resonates with Song of Solomon 5:6
The pain of reaching for a love that has turned away mirrors this lament of the beloved who has slipped from reach.
Another Sad Love Song · Toni Braxton
resonates with Song of Solomon 5:8
Lovesickness as consuming preoccupation is itself a biblical image; longing for a person is not treated as shameful, just intense.