Parallel Verses
Amplified
“Sustain me with raisin cakes,
Refresh me with apples,
Because I am sick with love.
New American Standard Bible
Refresh me with
Because
King James Version
Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.
Holman Bible
refresh me with apricots,
for I am lovesick.
International Standard Version
Sustain me with raisin cakes, refresh me with apples, for I'm weak with love.
A Conservative Version
Sustain ye me with raisins, refresh me with apples, for I am sick from love.
American Standard Version
Stay ye me with raisins, refresh me with apples; For I am sick from love.
Bible in Basic English
Make me strong with wine-cakes, let me be comforted with apples; I am overcome with love.
Darby Translation
Sustain ye me with raisin-cakes, Refresh me with apples; For I am sick of love.
Julia Smith Translation
Sustain me with cakes, and refresh me with apples, for I am pierced of love.
King James 2000
Sustain me with cakes of raisins, refresh me with apples: for I am sick with love.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Sustain me with the raisins, refresh me with the apples, {for I [am] lovesick}.
Modern King James verseion
Feed me with raisin cakes, comfort me with apples, for I am sick with love.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Set about me cups of wine, comfort me with apples; for I am sick of love.
NET Bible
Sustain me with raisin cakes, refresh me with apples, for I am faint with love. The Double Refrain: Embracing and Adjuration
New Heart English Bible
Strengthen me with raisins, refresh me with apples; For I am faint with love.
The Emphasized Bible
Sustain me with raisin-cakes, refresh me with apples, - for sick with love, I am.
Webster
Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick with love.
World English Bible
Strengthen me with raisins, refresh me with apples; For I am faint with love.
Youngs Literal Translation
Sustain me with grape-cakes, Support me with citrons, for I am sick with love.
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Song of Solomon 2:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Banquet Hall Of Love
4
“He has brought me to his banqueting place,
And his banner over me is love [waving overhead to protect and comfort me].
“Sustain me with raisin cakes,
Refresh me with apples,
Because I am sick with love.
“Let his left hand be under my head
And his right hand embrace me.”
Cross References
Song of Songs 5:8
“I command that you take an oath, O daughters of Jerusalem,
If you find my beloved,
As to what you tell him—
[Say that] I am sick from love [sick from being without him].”
2 Samuel 6:19
and distributed to all the people, the entire multitude of Israel, both to men and women, to each a [ring-shaped] loaf of bread, a cake of dates, and a cake of raisins. Then all the people departed, each to his house.
Hosea 3:1
Then the Lord said to me, “Go again, love a woman (
2 Samuel 13:1-2
It happened afterwards that Absalom the son of David had a beautiful sister whose name was Tamar, and Amnon [her half brother] the son of David was in love with her.
1 Chronicles 16:3
He distributed to everyone in Israel, both man and woman, to everyone a loaf of bread, a portion of meat, and a raisin cake.
Psalm 4:6-7
Many are saying, “Oh, that we might see some good!”
Lift up the light of Your face upon us, O Lord.
Psalm 42:1-2
So my
Psalm 63:1-3
My
In a dry and weary land where there is no water.
Psalm 63:8
My
Your right hand upholds me.
Psalm 119:130-131
The unfolding of Your [glorious] words give light;
Their unfolding gives understanding to the simple (childlike).
Song of Songs 7:8
“I said, ‘I will climb the palm tree;
I will grasp its branches.
Let your breasts be like clusters of the grapevine,
And the fragrance of your breath like apples,
Isaiah 26:8-9
Indeed, in the path of Your judgments, O Lord,
We have waited expectantly for You;
Your name, even Your memory, is the desire and deep longing of our souls.
Luke 24:32
They said to one another, “Were not our hearts burning within us while He was talking with us on the road and opening the Scriptures to us?”
Philippians 1:23
But I am hard-pressed between the two. I have the desire to leave [this world] and be with Christ, for that is far, far better;