Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
leaning on the one she loves?
There your mother conceived you;
there she conceived and gave you birth.
New American Standard Bible
Leaning on her beloved?”
“
There your mother was in labor with you,
There she was in labor and gave you birth.
King James Version
Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee.
International Standard Version
Who is this coming up from the desert, leaning on her beloved? Under theapple tree I awakened you. There your mother had gone into labor with you; there she went into labor and gave birth to you.
A Conservative Version
Who is this who comes up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? Under the apple tree I awoke thee. There thy mother was in travail with thee. There she who brought thee forth was in travail.
American Standard Version
Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, Leaning upon her beloved? Under the apple-tree I awakened thee: There thy mother was in travail with thee, There was she in travail that brought thee forth.
Amplified
(The Chorus)
“Who is this coming up from the wilderness
Leaning upon her beloved?”
Bible in Basic English
Who is this, who comes up from the waste places, resting on her loved one? It was I who made you awake under the apple-tree, where your mother gave you birth; there she was in pain at your birth.
Darby Translation
Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, Leaning upon her beloved? I awoke thee under the apple-tree: There thy mother brought thee forth; There she brought thee forth that bore thee.
Julia Smith Translation
Who this coming up from the desert, leaning herself upon her beloved? Under the apple tree I aroused thee: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she bearing thee, brought forth .
King James 2000
Who is this that comes up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I awakened you under the apple tree: there your mother brought you forth: there she brought you forth that bore you.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Who [is] this coming up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? Under the apple tree I awakened you; there your mother {conceived you}; there she who was in labor gave birth to you.
Modern King James verseion
Who is this coming up from the wilderness, leaning on her Beloved? I awakened you under the apple tree; there your mother travailed with you; there she travailed and bore you.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I am the same that waked thee up among the apple trees, where thy mother bare thee, where thy mother brought thee in to the world.
NET Bible
The Maidens about His Beloved: Who is this coming up from the desert, leaning on her beloved? The Beloved to Her Lover: Under the apple tree I aroused you; there your mother conceived you, there she who bore you was in labor of childbirth.
New Heart English Bible
Who is this who comes up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? Under the apple tree I aroused you. There your mother conceived you. There she was in labor and bore you.
The Emphasized Bible
THEYWho is this, coming up out of the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? HEUnder the apple-tree, I roused thee, where thy mother, was in pain with thee, where she was in pain who gave thee birth!
Webster
Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple-tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bore thee.
World English Bible
Who is this who comes up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? Under the apple tree I aroused you. There your mother conceived you. There she was in labor and bore you.
Youngs Literal Translation
Who is this coming from the wilderness, Hasting herself for her beloved? Under the citron-tree I have waked thee, There did thy mother pledge thee, There she gave a pledge that bare thee.
Themes
journey of israel through the Desert » Illustrative of the pilgrimage of the church
Interlinear
`alah
Chabal
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Song of Solomon 8:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Up From The Wilderness And Under The Apple Tree
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do not stir up or awaken love
until the appropriate time.
leaning on the one she loves?
There your mother conceived you;
there she conceived and gave you birth.
as a seal on your arm.
For love is as strong as death;
ardent love is as unrelenting as Sheol.
Love’s flames are fiery flames
the fiercest of all.
Phrases
Cross References
Song of Songs 3:6
like columns of smoke,
scented with myrrh and frankincense
from every fragrant powder of the merchant?
Song of Songs 2:3
so is my love among the young men.
I delight to sit in his shade,
and his fruit is sweet to my taste.
Song of Songs 3:4
when I found the one I love.
I held on to him and would not let him go
until I brought him to my mother’s house
to the chamber of the one who conceived me.
2 Chronicles 32:8
He has only human strength,
Psalm 45:10-11
forget your people and your father’s house,
Psalm 63:8
Your right hand holds on to me.
Psalm 107:2-8
that He has redeemed them from the hand of the foe
Song of Songs 3:11
and gaze at King Solomon,
wearing the crown his mother placed on him
the day of his wedding
the day of his heart’s rejoicing.
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Song of Songs 4:8
with me from Lebanon!
Descend from the peak of Amana,
from the summit of Senir and Hermon,
from the dens of the lions,
from the mountains of the leopards.
Song of Songs 6:10
as beautiful as the moon,
bright as the sun,
awe-inspiring as an army with banners?
Song of Songs 8:1
one who nursed at my mother’s breasts,
I would find you in public and kiss you,
and no one would scorn me.
Isaiah 26:3-4
in perfect peace,
for it is trusting in You.
Isaiah 36:6
Look, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff
Isaiah 40:3
A voice of one crying out:
make a straight highway for our God in the desert.
Isaiah 43:19
even now it is coming. Do you not see it?
Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness,
rivers
Isaiah 49:20-23
that you have been deprived of will say,
‘This place is too small for me;
make room for me so that I may settle.’
Jeremiah 2:2
“Go and announce directly to Jerusalem that this is what the Lord says:
your love as a bride—
how you followed Me in the wilderness,
in a land not sown.
Hosea 12:4
he wept and sought His favor.
He found him
and there He spoke with him.
Micah 3:11
her priests teach for payment,
and her prophets practice divination for money.
Yet they lean on the Lord, saying,
“Isn’t the Lord
No disaster will overtake us.”
John 1:48-51
“How do you know me?” Nathanael asked.
John 13:23
One of His disciples, the one Jesus loved,
Acts 27:23-25
For this night an angel of the God I belong to and serve stood by me,
Romans 7:4
Therefore, my brothers, you also were put to death
2 Corinthians 12:9-10
But He said to me,
Galatians 4:19
My children,
Ephesians 1:12-13
so that we who had already put our hope
1 Peter 1:21
who through Him are believers in God,
Revelation 12:6
The woman fled into the wilderness, where she had a place prepared by God,