Song of Songs 2:5

In 11 translations

BSB

Sustain me with raisins; refresh me with apples, for I am faint with love.

KJV

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.comfort…: Heb. straw me with apples

WEB

Strengthen me with raisins, refresh me with apples; for I am faint with love.

ASV

Stay ye me with raisins, refresh me with apples; For I am sick from love.

LSV

Sustain me with grape-cakes, || Support me with citrons, for I [am] sick with love.

YLT

Sustain me with grape-cakes, Support me with citrons, for I [am] sick with love.

DBY

Sustain ye me with raisin-cakes, Refresh me with apples; For I am sick of love.

DRC

Stay me up with flowers, compass me about with apples: because I languish with love.

GNV

Stay me with flagons, and comfort me with apples: for I am sicke of loue.

JPS

'Stay ye me with dainties, refresh me with apples; for I am love-sick.'

LXXE

Strengthen me with perfumes, stay me with apples: for I am wounded with love.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC

סַמְּכ֨וּנִי֙ בָּֽאֲשִׁישׁ֔וֹת רַפְּד֖וּנִי בַּתַּפּוּחִ֑ים כִּי־חוֹלַ֥ת אַהֲבָ֖ה אָֽנִי׃

LXX-Br

Στηρίσατέ με ἐν μύροις, στοιβάσατέ με ἐν μήλοις, ὅτι τετρωμένη ἀγάπης ἐγώ.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

• Song of Songs 5:8O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you, if you find my beloved, tell him I am sick with love.
• 2 Samuel 6:19Then he distributed to every man and woman among the multitude of Israel a loaf of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake. And all the people departed, each for his own home.
• Hosea 3:1Then the LORD said to me, “Go show love to your wife again, though she is loved by another and is an adulteress. Love her as the LORD loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and offer raisin cakes to idols.”
• 2 Samuel 13:1–2After some time, David’s son Amnon fell in love with Tamar, the beautiful sister of David’s son Absalom. Amnon was sick with frustration over his sister Tamar, for she was a virgin, and it seemed implausible for him to…
• Psalms 63:1–3O God, You are my God. Earnestly I seek You; my soul thirsts for You. My body yearns for You in a dry and weary land without water. So I have seen You in the sanctuary and beheld Your power and glory. Because Your…
• Psalms 63:8My soul clings to You; Your right hand upholds me.
• Psalms 42:1–2As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You, O God. My soul thirsts for God, the living God. When shall I come and appear in God’s presence?
• Philippians 1:23I am torn between the two. I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better indeed.
• Luke 24:32They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us as He spoke with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”
• Psalms 4:6–7Many ask, “Who can show us the good?” Shine the light of Your face upon us, O LORD. You have filled my heart with more joy than when grain and new wine abound.
• Psalms 119:130–131The unfolding of Your words gives light; it informs the simple. I open my mouth and pant, longing for Your commandments.
• Song of Songs 7:8I 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,
• Isaiah 26:8–9Yes, we wait for You, O LORD; we walk in the path of Your judgments. Your name and renown are the desire of our souls. My soul longs for You in the night; indeed, my spirit seeks You at dawn. For when Your judgments…
• 1 Chronicles 16:3Then he distributed to every man and woman of Israel a loaf of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake.

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