Parallel Verses
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 .
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.
Holman Bible
leaning on the one she loves?
There your mother conceived you;
there she conceived and gave you birth.
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.
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
4 I adjured you, O daughters of Jerusalem, why will ye awake, and why will ye rouse love till he shall desire?' 5 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 . 6 Set me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love was strong as death; jealousy hard as hades: its flames, flames of fire, flames of Jehovah.
Phrases
Cross References
Song of Songs 3:6
Who is this coming up from the desert as columns of smoke of burning incense, of myrrh and frankincense from all the powder of the trader.
Song of Songs 2:3
As the apple among the trees of the forest, so my beloved between the sons. In his shadow I delighted, and I sat down, and his fruit was sweet to my palate.
Song of Songs 3:4
As a little I passed from them till I found him my soul loved: I held him fast, and I shall not let him go till I brought him into my mother's house, and to the chamber of her conceiving me.
2 Chronicles 32:8
With him an arm of flesh; and with us Jehovah our God to help, and to war our wars. And the people will lean upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.
Psalm 45:10-11
Hear, O daughter, and see, and incline thine ear, and forget thy people and thy father's house;
Psalm 63:8
My soul adhered after thee: thy right hand held fast upon me.
Psalm 107:2-8
They being redeemed of Jehovah shall say, Which he redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
Song of Songs 3:11
Go forth, ye daughters of Zion, and look upon king Solomon; upon the crown his mother crowned to him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart
Song of Songs 4:8
Thou shalt come with me from Lebanon, O bride, with me from Lebanon: thou shalt go round about from the head of faith, from the head of Shenir and Hermon, from the dwellings of lions, from the mountains of panthers.
Song of Songs 6:10
Who this looking forth as the morning, beautiful as the moon, clear as the sun, a terror as those being furnished with banners?
Song of Songs 8:1
Who will give thee as a brother to me, sucking the breasts of my mother? I shall find thee without, I shall kiss thee; also they shall not despise me.
Isaiah 26:3-4
The mind placed upon thee thou wilt form peace, peace, because he trusted in thee.
Isaiah 36:6
Behold, thou trustedst upon the staff of this broken reed, upon Egypt; which, shall a man rest upon it, it was into his hand and pierced it: thus Pharaoh king of Egypt to all trusting upon him.
Isaiah 40:3
The voice of him calling in the desert, Prepare ye the way of Jehovah, make straight in the sterile region a highway for our God.
Isaiah 43:19
Behold me doing a new thing; now it shall spring forth, shall ye not know it? I will also set a way in the desert, rivers in the waste.
Isaiah 49:20-23
Yet shall the sons of thy bereavement say in thine ears, The place is strait to me: draw near to me and I shall dwell.
Jeremiah 2:2
Go and call in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus said Jehovah, I remembered for thee the kindness of thy youth, the love of thy completion, thy going after me in the desert in a land not, sown.
Hosea 12:4
And he will be a leader to the messenger, and he will prevail: he wept, and he will make supplication to him: in the house of God he will find him, and there he will speak with him.
Micah 3:11
Her heads will judge for a gift, and her priests will teach for hire, and her prophets will divine for silver: and they will lean upon Jehovah, saying, Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? he will not bring evil upon us.
John 1:48-51
Nathanael says to him, Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered and said to him, Before Philip called thee, being under the fig tree, I saw thee.
John 13:23
And there was one of his disciples reclining on the bosom of Jesus, whom he loved.
Acts 27:23-25
For the messenger of God stood by me in this night, whose I am, and whom I serve,
Romans 7:4
Therefore, my brethren, ye also were dead to the law by the body of Christ; for you not to be to another, but to him raised from the dead, that we bring forth fruit to God.
2 Corinthians 12:9-10
And he said to me, My grace suffices thee: for my power is perfected in weakness. Therefore very willingly will I boast rather in my weaknesses, that Christ's power may lodge upon me.
Galatians 4:19
My children, for whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you,
Ephesians 1:12-13
For us to be to the praise of his glory, who before hoped in Christ.
1 Peter 1:21
Who by him believing in God, having raised him from the dead, and having given him glory; that your faith and hope should be in God.
Revelation 12:6
And the woman fled into the desert where she has a place prepared from God, that they might nourish her there a thousand two hundred and sixty days.