Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

Make me strong with wine-cakes, let me be comforted with apples; I am overcome with love.

New American Standard Bible

“Sustain me with raisin cakes,
Refresh me with apples,
Because I am lovesick.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Sustain me with raisins;
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.

Amplified


“Sustain me with raisin cakes,
Refresh me with apples,
Because I am sick 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

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
סמך 
Camak 
Usage: 48

me with flagons
אשׁישׁה 
'ashiyshah 
Usage: 4

רפד 
Raphad 
Usage: 3

me with apples
תּפּוּח 
Tappuwach 
Usage: 6

References

Verse Info

Context Readings

Banquet Hall Of Love

4 He took me to the house of wine, and his flag over me was love. 5 Make me strong with wine-cakes, let me be comforted with apples; I am overcome with love. 6 His left hand is under my head, and his right hand is round about me.



Cross References

Song of Songs 5:8

I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you see my loved one, what will you say to him? That I am overcome with love.

2 Samuel 6:19

And he gave to every man and woman among all the people, among all the masses of Israel, a cake of bread and a measure of wine and a cake of dry grapes. Then all the people went away, every man to his house.

Hosea 3:1

And the Lord said to me, Give your love again to a woman who has a lover and is false to her husband, even as the Lord has love for the children of Israel, though they are turned to other gods and are lovers of grape-cakes.

2 Samuel 13:1-2

Now after this, it came about that Absalom, David's son, had a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar; and David's son Amnon was in love with her.

1 Chronicles 16:3

And he gave to everyone, every man and woman of Israel, a cake of bread, some meat, and a cake of dry grapes.

Psalm 4:6-7

There are numbers who say, Who will do us any good? the light of his face has gone from us.

Psalm 42:1-2

Like the desire of the roe for the water-streams, so is my soul's desire for you, O God.

Psalm 63:1-3

O God, you are my God; early will I make my search for you: my soul is dry for need of you, my flesh is wasted with desire for you, as a dry and burning land where no water is;

Psalm 119:130-131

The opening of your words gives light; it gives good sense to the simple.

Song of Songs 7:8

I said, Let me go up the palm-tree, and let me take its branches in my hands: your breasts will be as the fruit of the vine, and the smell of your breath like apples;

Isaiah 26:8-9

We have been waiting for you, O Lord; the desire of our soul is for the memory of your name.

Luke 24:32

And they said to one another, Were not our hearts burning in us while he was talking to us on the way, making clear to us the holy Writings?

Philippians 1:23

I am in a hard position between the two, having a desire to go away and be with Christ, which is very much better:

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