Parallel Verses

American Standard Version

Stay ye me with raisins, refresh me with apples; For I am sick from 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.

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 brought me to the banqueting-house, And his banner over me was love. 5 Stay ye me with raisins, refresh me with apples; For I am sick from love. 6 His left hand is under my head, And his right hand doth embrace me.



Cross References

Song of Songs 5:8

I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, If ye find my beloved, That ye tell him, that I am sick from love.

2 Samuel 6:19

And he dealt among all the people, even among the whole multitude of Israel, both to men and women, to every one a cake of bread, and a portion of flesh , and a cake of raisins. So all the people departed every one to his house.

Hosea 3:1

And Jehovah said unto me, Go again, love a woman beloved of her friend, and an adulteress, even as Jehovah loveth the children of Israel, though they turn unto other gods, and love cakes of raisins.

2 Samuel 13:1-2

And it came to pass after this, that Absalom the son of David had a fair sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her.

1 Chronicles 16:3

And he dealt to every one of Israel, both man and woman, to every one a loaf of bread, and a portion of flesh , and a cake of raisins.

Psalm 4:6-7

Many there are that say, Who will show us any good? Jehovah, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.

Psalm 42:1-2

As the hart panteth after the water brooks, So panteth my soul after thee, O God.

Psalm 63:1-3

O God, thou art my God; earnestly will I seek thee: My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee, In a dry and weary land, where no water is.

Psalm 63:8

My soul followeth hard after thee: Thy right hand upholdeth me.

Psalm 119:130-131

The opening of thy words giveth light; It giveth understanding unto the simple.

Song of Songs 7:8

I said, I will climb up into the palm-tree, I will take hold of the branches thereof: Let thy breasts be as clusters of the vine, And the smell of thy breath like apples,

Isaiah 26:8-9

Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O Jehovah, have we waited for thee; to thy name, even to thy memorial name , is the desire of our soul.

Luke 24:32

And they said one to another, Was not our heart burning within us, while he spake to us in the way, while he opened to us the scriptures?

Philippians 1:23

But I am in a strait betwixt the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ; for it is very far better:

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