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
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.
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
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Song of Solomon 2:5
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: