Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
Sustain me with raisin cakes, refresh me with apples, for I'm weak 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.
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.
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 the banquet hall, and his banner over me is love. 5 Sustain me with raisin cakes, refresh me with apples, for I'm weak with love. 6 I wish that his left hand were under my head, and that his right hand were embracing me!
Cross References
Song of Songs 5:8
I charge you, young women of Jerusalem, "If you find my beloved, what are you to tell him? Tell him that I'm weak with love."
2 Samuel 6:19
and distributed to all the people the entire multitude of Israel, including both men and women a cake made of bread, one made of dates, and one made of raisins to each one. Then all the people left, each headed for home.
Hosea 3:1
Then the LORD told me: "Go love your wife again, even though she is being loved by another and is committing adultery. Love her the same way the LORD loves the people of Israel, even though they look to other gods and love raisin cakes."
2 Samuel 13:1-2
Sometime after this, David's son Amnon fell in love with David's other son Absalom's beautiful sister Tamar.
1 Chronicles 16:3
and distributed a loaf of bread, a date bar, and a raisin bar to every person in Israel that is, to each man and to each woman.
Psalm 4:6-7
Many are asking, "Who will help us to see better days?" LORD, may the light of your favor shine upon us.
Psalm 42:1-2
As an antelope pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, God.
Psalm 63:1-3
God, you are my God! I will fervently seek you. My soul thirsts for you; my flesh longs for you in a dry, weary, and parched land.
Psalm 63:8
My soul clings to you, even as your right hand supports me.
Psalm 119:130-131
The disclosure of your words illuminates, providing understanding to the simple.
Song of Songs 7:8
I told myself, "I'll go up the palm tree, and take hold of its fruit. May your breasts be like clusters of the vine, and the smell of your breath like apples.
Isaiah 26:8-9
Yes, LORD, in the path of your judgments we wait; your name and your Law are the soul's desire.
Luke 24:32
Then they asked each other, "Our hearts kept burning within us as he was talking to us on the road and explaining the Scriptures to us, didn't they?"
Philippians 1:23
Indeed, I cannot decide between the two. I have the desire to leave this life and be with the Messiah, for that is far better.