and distributed 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 departed, each to his house.
Song of Solomon 2:5 - Revised Standard Version Sustain me with raisins, refresh me with apples; for I am sick with love. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Stay me with flagons, Comfort me with apples: For I am sick of love. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Sustain me with raisins, refresh me with apples, for I am sick with love. American Standard Version (1901) Stay ye me with raisins, refresh me with apples; For I am sick from love. Common English Bible Sustain me with raisin cakes, strengthen me with apples, for I’m weak with love! Catholic Public Domain Version Prop me up with flowers. Close me in with apples. For I languish through love. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Stay me up with flowers, compass me about with apples: because I languish with love. |
and distributed 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 departed, each to his house.
and distributed to all Israel, both men and women, to each a loaf of bread, a portion of meat, and a cake of raisins.
I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him I am sick with love.
I say I will climb the palm tree and lay hold of its branches. Oh, may your breasts be like clusters of the vine, and the scent of your breath like apples,
And the Lord said to me, “Go again, love a woman who is beloved of a paramour and is an adulteress; even as the Lord loves the people of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love cakes of raisins.”
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?”
I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better.