Song of Solomon 6:12

He fell on his brother Benjamin’s neck and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck.

Joseph prepared his chariot, and went up to meet Israel, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.

For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.

Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.

So Joab came to the king, and told him; and when he had called for Absalom, he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king; and the king kissed Absalom.

But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.

My sister, my bride, is a locked up garden; a locked up spring, a sealed fountain.

Who is this who comes up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? Under the apple tree I aroused you. There your mother conceived you. There she was in labor and bore you.

Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!

He kissed all his brothers, and wept on them. After that his brothers talked with him.

Take firm hold of instruction. Don’t let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.

I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.

How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine, the fragrance of your perfumes than all kinds of spices!

I would lead you, bringing you into the house of my mother, who would instruct me. I would have you drink spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranate.

“I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.

Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I still earnestly remember him. therefore my heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy on him,” says Yahweh.

They all wept freely, and fell on Paul’s neck and kissed him,

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.

I am sending him back. Therefore receive him, that is, my own heart,

Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, “Don’t let me see the death of the child.” She sat opposite him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.

The man said, “Let me go, for the day breaks.” Jacob said, “I won’t let you go unless you bless me.”

Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in robes of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck.

They put away the foreign gods from among them and served Yahweh; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.

Kings’ daughters are among your honorable women. At your right hand the queen stands in gold of Ophir.

Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.

for they will be a garland to grace your head, and chains around your neck.

Longing fulfilled is sweet to the soul, but fools detest turning from evil.

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; for your love is better than wine.

Take me away with you. Let’s hurry. The king has brought me into his rooms. We will be glad and rejoice in you. We will praise your love more than wine! They are right to love you.

Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings, your neck with strings of jewels.

Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are like doves.

I had scarcely passed from them, when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, into the room of her who conceived me.

Go out, you daughters of Zion, and see king Solomon, with the crown with which his mother has crowned him, in the day of his weddings, in the day of the gladness of his heart.

You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride. You have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck.

I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my hair with the dampness of the night.”

Turn away your eyes from me, for they have overcome me. Your hair is like a flock of goats, that lie along the side of Gilead.

Your head on you is like Carmel. The hair of your head like purple. The king is held captive in its tresses.

I am my beloved’s. His desire is toward me.

I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I didn’t say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain.’ I, Yahweh, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right.

For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name. The Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer. He will be called the God of the whole earth.

I have seen his ways, and will heal him. I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.

For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons will marry you. As a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.

You shall seek me, and find me, when you search for me with all your heart.

Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.

For though he causes grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

“ ‘ “Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness. Yes, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you,” says the Lord Yahweh, “and you became mine.

I decked you with ornaments, put bracelets on your hands, and put a chain on your neck.

“How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me, my compassion is aroused.

Ephraim, what have I to do any more with idols? I answer, and will take care of him. I am like a green cypress tree; from me your fruit is found.”

Then Yahweh was jealous for his land, And had pity on his people.

God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. God relented of the disaster which he said he would do to them, and he didn’t do it.

Yahweh, your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.”

As they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, “Rejoice!” They came and took hold of his feet, and worshiped him.

“I have compassion on the multitude, because they have stayed with me now three days, and have nothing to eat.

“He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

Jesus turned and saw them following, and said to them, “What are you looking for?” They said to him, “Rabbi” (which is to say, being interpreted, Teacher), “where are you staying?”

He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. This, my joy, therefore is made full.

So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them. He stayed there two days.

Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned and said to him, “Rabboni!” which is to say, “Teacher!”

For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

He came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near.

Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.

Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.

Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

They were willing therefore to receive him into the boat. Immediately the boat was at the land where they were going.