Quotes About Connection

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.”

My beloved put his hand to the latch; my heart pounded for him.

Where has your beloved gone, O most beautiful among women? Which way has he turned? We will seek him with you.

Your brow behind your veil is like a slice of pomegranate.

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?

Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.

Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel, the hair of your head like purple threads; the king is captured in your tresses.

I said, “I will climb the palm tree; I will take hold of its fruit.” May your breasts be like clusters of the vine, the fragrance of your breath like apples,

Come, my beloved, let us go to the countryside; let us spend the night among the wildflowers.

O that you were to me like a brother who nursed at my motherís breasts! If I found you outdoors, I would kiss you, and no one would despise me.

I would lead you and bring you to the house of my mother who taught me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the nectar of my pomegranates.

His left hand is under my head, and his right arm embraces me.

Who is this coming up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? I roused you under the apple tree; there your mother conceived you; there she travailed and brought you forth.

You who dwell in the gardens, my companions are listening for your voice. Let me hear it!

Come away, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices.

In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria. The Assyrians will go to Egypt, and the Egyptians to Assyria. The Egyptians and Assyrians will worship together.

But you have not called on Me, O Jacob, because you have grown weary of Me, O Israel.

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the son of her womb? Even if she could forget, I will not forget you!

Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.

Even before they call, I will answer, and while they are still speaking, I will hear.

Have you not just called to Me, ëMy Father, You are my friend from youth.

“Am I only a God nearby,” declares the LORD, “and not a God far away?”

Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.

You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.