Parallel Verses

International Standard Version

Sustain me with raisin cakes, refresh me with apples, for I'm weak 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.

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

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 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.

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