Song of Solomon 2:5
3 Like an apricot tree among the trees of the forest is my beloved among the young men. I delight to sit in his shade, and his fruit is sweet to my taste.
4 He has brought me to the house of wine, and his banner over me is love.
Sustain me with raisins; refresh me with apples, for I am faint with love.
6 His left hand is under my head, and his right arm embraces me.
7 O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you by the gazelles and does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until the time is right.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Sustain me with raisins; refresh me with apples, for I am faint with love.
- KJV
- Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.
- WEB
- Strengthen me with raisins, refresh me with apples; for I am faint with love.
- ASV
- Stay ye me with raisins, refresh me with apples; For I am sick from love.
- DARBY
- Sustain ye me with raisin-cakes, Refresh me with apples; For I am sick of love.
- BLB
- Sustain me with raisin-cakes, refresh me with apples—for I [am] sick with love.
- ÅB
- Styrk meg med druekaker, kveg meg med epler! For jeg er syk av kjærlighet.
- OTB
- Styrk meg med rosinkaker, Støtt meg med epler, For jeg er syk av kjærlighet.
- B1930
- Styrk mig med druekaker, kveg mig med epler! For jeg er syk av kjærlighet.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Song of Solomon 5:8
O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you, if you find my beloved, tell him I am sick with love.
Read in contextHosea 3:1
Then the LORD said to me, “Go show love to your wife again, though she is loved by another and is an adulteress. Love her as the LORD loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and offer raisin cakes to idols.”
Read in context2 Samuel 6:19
Then he distributed to every man and woman among the multitude of Israel a loaf of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake. And all the people departed, each for his own home.
Read in contextPsalms 42:1–2
As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You, O God.
Read in contextLuke 24:32
They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us as He spoke with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”
Read in context2 Samuel 13:1–2
After some time, David’s son Amnon fell in love with Tamar, the beautiful sister of David’s son Absalom.
Read in contextPsalms 4:6–7
Many ask, “Who can show us the good?” Shine the light of Your face upon us, O LORD.
Read in contextPsalms 63:1–3
O God, You are my God. Earnestly I seek You; my soul thirsts for You. My body yearns for You in a dry and weary land without water.
Read in context