Song 1:3-6, Jer 31:3, Mal 1:2 | ESV | STEP | your anointing oils are fragrant ; your name is oil poured out ; therefore virgins love you.

g[See ver. 2 above]

h ch. 2:14; 4:3; 6:4

i ch. 2:7; 3:5, 10, 11; 5:8, 16; 8:4; Luke 23:28

j Ps. 120:5

k Isa. 60:7

l[Ps. 69:8]

m Job 27:18; Prov. 27:18

n ch. 8:11, 12

o[1 Cor. 9:27]

q Deut. 7:8; 10:15; Mal. 1:2; Rom. 11:28

r Ps. 36:10

s Hos. 11:4

t Deut. 7:8; Jer. 31:3

u[ch. 2:14, 17; 3:7, 8, 13]

v[Amos 1:11; Obad. 10]

wCited Rom. 9:13

Song of Solomon 1:3-6

3 your ^aanointing oils are fragrant;
your ^bname is oil poured out;
therefore virgins love you.
4 ^cDraw me after you; ^dlet us run.
^eThe king has brought me into his chambers.

Others

We will ^fexult and rejoice in you;
we will extol ^gyour love more than wine;
rightly do they love you.

She

5 I am very dark, but ^hlovely,
O ⁱdaughters of Jerusalem,
like ^jthe tents of ^kKedar,
like the curtains of Solomon.
6 Do not gaze at me because I am dark,
because the sun has looked upon me.
My ^lmother’s sons were angry with me;
they made me ^mkeeper of ⁿthe vineyards,
but ^omy own vineyard I have not kept!

Jeremiah 31:3

3 the Lord appeared to him ^{▼▼Septuagint; Hebrew me} from far away.
^qI have loved you with an everlasting love;
therefore ^rI have continued ^smy faithfulness to you.

Malachi 1:2

The Lord’s Love for Israel

2 ^t“I have loved you,” says the Lord. ^uBut you say, “How have you loved us?” “Is not Esau ^vJacob’s brother?” declares the Lord. “Yet ^wI have loved Jacob