◄ Songs 2:5 ►
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Good News Translation
Restore my strength with raisins and refresh me with apples! I am weak from passion.

New Revised Standard Version
Sustain me with raisins, refresh me with apples; for I am faint with love.

Contemporary English Version
Refresh and strengthen me with raisins and apples. I am hungry for love!

New American Bible
Strengthen me with raisin cakes, refresh me with apples, for I am sick with love.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Stay me up with flowers, compass me about with apples: because I languish with love.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

stay

Psalm 4:6,7 The light of thy countenance, O Lord, is signed upon us: thou hast given gladness in my heart. . . .

Psalm 42:1,2 Unto the end, understanding for the sons of Core. [2] As the hart panteth after the fountains of water; so my soul panteth after thee, O God. . . .

Psalm 63:1,3-8 A psalm of David while he was in the desert of Edom. [2] O God, my God, to thee do I watch at break of day. For thee my soul hath thirsted; for thee my flesh, O how many ways! . . .

Isaiah 26:8,9 And in the way of thy judgments, O Lord, we have patiently waited for thee: thy name, and thy remembrance are the desire of the soul. . . .

Luke 24:32 And they said one to the other: Was not our heart burning within us, whilst he spoke in the way and opened to us the scriptures?

Philippians 1:23 But I am straitened between two: having a desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ, a thing by far the better.

flagons

2 Samuel 6:19 And he distributed to all the multitude of Israel, both men and women, to every one, a cake of bread, and a piece of roasted beef, and fine flour fried with oil: and all the people departed every one to his own house.

Hosea 3:1 And the Lord said to me: Go yet again, and love a woman beloved of her friend, and an adulteress: as the Lord loveth the children of Israel, and they look to strange gods, and love the husks of the grapes.

comfort me

Songs 5:8 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him that I languish with love.

2 Samuel 13:1,2 And it came to pass after this that Ammon the son of David loved the sister of Absalom the son of David, who was very beautiful, and her name was Thamar. . . .

Psalm 119:130,131 The declaration of thy words giveth light: and giveth understanding to little ones. . . .

Context
The Bride's Admiration
…4He brought me into the cellar of wine, he set in order charity in me. 5Stay me up with flowers, compass me about with apples: because I languish with love.6His left hand is under my head, and his right hand shall embrace me.…
Cross References
2 Samuel 6:19
And he distributed to all the multitude of Israel, both men and women, to every one, a cake of bread, and a piece of roasted beef, and fine flour fried with oil: and all the people departed every one to his own house.

1 Chronicles 16:3
And he divided to all and every one, both men and women, a loaf of bread, and a piece of roasted beef, and flour fried with oil.

Songs 5:8
I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him that I languish with love.

Songs 7:8
I said: I will go up into the palm tree, and will take hold of the fruit thereof: and thy breasts shall be as the clusters of the vine: and the odour of thy mouth like apples.

Hosea 3:1
And the Lord said to me: Go yet again, and love a woman beloved of her friend, and an adulteress: as the Lord loveth the children of Israel, and they look to strange gods, and love the husks of the grapes.

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