Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Sustain me with grape-cakes, Support me with citrons, for I am sick 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.
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.
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Song of Solomon 2:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Banquet Hall Of Love
4 He hath brought me in unto a house of wine, And his banner over me is love, 5 Sustain me with grape-cakes, Support me with citrons, for I am sick with love. 6 His left hand is under my head, And his right doth embrace me.
Cross References
Song of Songs 5:8
I have adjured you, daughters of Jerusalem, If ye find my beloved -- What do ye tell him? that I am sick with love!
2 Samuel 6:19
and he apportioneth to all the people, to all the multitude of Israel, from man even unto woman, to each, one cake of bread, and one eshpar, and one ashisha, and all the people go, each to his house.
Hosea 3:1
And Jehovah saith unto me: 'Again, go, love a woman, loved of a friend, and an adulteress, like the loved of Jehovah, the sons of Israel, and they are turning unto other gods, and are lovers of grape-cakes.'
2 Samuel 13:1-2
And it cometh to pass afterwards that Absalom son of David hath a fair sister, and her name is Tamar, and Amnon son of David loveth her.
1 Chronicles 16:3
and giveth a portion to every man of Israel, both man and woman: to each a cake of bread, and a measure of wine, and a grape-cake.
Psalm 4:6-7
Many are saying, 'Who doth show us good?' Lift on us the light of Thy face, O Jehovah,
Psalm 42:1-2
To the Overseer. -- An Instruction. By sons of Korah. As a hart doth pant for streams of water, So my soul panteth toward Thee, O God.
Psalm 63:1-3
A Psalm of David, in his being in the wilderness of Judah. O God, Thou art my God, earnestly do I seek Thee, Thirsted for Thee hath my soul, Longed for Thee hath my flesh, In a land dry and weary, without waters.
Psalm 63:8
Cleaved hath my soul after Thee, On me hath Thy right hand taken hold.
Psalm 119:130-131
The opening of Thy words enlighteneth, Instructing the simple.
Song of Songs 7:8
I said, 'Let me go up on the palm, Let me lay hold on its boughs, Yea, let thy breasts be, I pray thee, as clusters of the vine, And the fragrance of thy face as citrons,
Isaiah 26:8-9
Also, in the path of Thy judgments, O Jehovah, we have waited for Thee, To Thy name and to Thy remembrance Is the desire of the soul.
Luke 24:32
And they said one to another, 'Was not our heart burning within us, as he was speaking to us in the way, and as he was opening up to us the Writings?'
Philippians 1:23
for I am pressed by the two, having the desire to depart, and to be with Christ, for it is far better,