Parallel Verses

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.

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 “Sustain me with raisin cakes,
Refresh me with apples,
Because I am lovesick.
6 His left hand is under my head, and his right hand embraces me!

Cross References

Song of Songs 5:8

I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him I am sick with love.

2 Samuel 6:19

and distributed among all the people, the whole multitude of Israel, both men and women, a cake of bread, a portion of meat, and a cake of raisins to each one. Then all the people departed, each to his house.

Hosea 3:1

And the LORD said to me, "Go again, love a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress, even as the LORD loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love cakes of raisins."

2 Samuel 13:1-2

Now Absalom, David's son, had a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar. And after a time Amnon, David's son, loved her.

1 Chronicles 16:3

and distributed to all Israel, both men and women, to each a loaf of bread, a portion of meat, and a cake of raisins.

Psalm 4:6-7

There are many who say, "Who will show us some good? Lift up the light of your face upon us, O LORD!"

Psalm 42:1-2

As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God.

Psalm 63:1-3

O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.

Psalm 63:8

My soul clings to you; your right hand upholds me.

Psalm 119:130-131

The unfolding of your words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple.

Song of Songs 7:8

I say I will climb the palm tree and lay hold of its fruit. Oh may your breasts be like clusters of the vine, and the scent of your breath like apples,

Isaiah 26:8-9

In the path of your judgments, O LORD, we wait for you; your name and remembrance are the desire of our soul.

Luke 24:32

They said to each other, "Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road, while he opened to us the Scriptures?"

Philippians 1:23

I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better.

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