Song of Solomon 2:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵ Sustain me with raisins, refresh me with apples, for I am faint with love.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ Stay me with flagons, Comfort me with apples: For I am sick of love.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ Sustain me with raisins, refresh me with apples, for I am sick with love.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ Stay ye me with raisins, refresh me with apples; For I am sick from love.

Common English Bible

⁵ Sustain me with raisin cakes, strengthen me with apples, for I’m weak with love!

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ Prop me up with flowers. Close me in with apples. For I languish through love.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ Stay me up with flowers, compass me about with apples: because I languish with love.

Song of Solomon 2:5 Cross References

2 Samuel 6:19

and distributed food among all the people, the whole multitude of Israel, both men and women, to each a cake of bread, a portion of meat, and a cake of raisins. Then all the people went back to their homes.

1 Chronicles 16:3

and he distributed to every person in Israel—man and woman alike—to each a loaf of bread, a portion of meat, and a cake of raisins.

Psalm 63:8

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

Song of Solomon 5:8

I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, tell him this: I am faint with love.

Song of Solomon 7:8

I said, “I will climb the palm tree and lay hold of its branches.” O may your breasts be like clusters of the vine, and the scent of your breath like apples,

Hosea 3:1

The Lord said to me again, “Go, love a woman who has a lover and is an adulteress, just as the Lord loves the people of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes.”

Luke 24:32

They said to each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he was talking to us on the road, while he was opening the scriptures to us?”

Philippians 1:23

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