KJV King James Version
Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I [am] sick of love.
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Song of Solomon 2:5
Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I [am] sick of love.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
Sustain me with raisins; refresh me with apples, for I am faint with love.
WEB World English Bible
Strengthen me with raisins, refresh me with apples; For I am faint with love.
ASV American Standard Version
Stay ye me with raisins, refresh me with apples; For I am sick from love.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Sustain me with grape-cakes, Support me with citrons, for I am sick with love.
Surrounding context — Song of Solomon 2
2 As the lily among thorns, so [is] my love among the daughters.
3 As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so [is] my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit [was] sweet to my taste.
4 He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me [was] love.
5 Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I [am] sick of love.
6 His left hand [is] under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me.
7 I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake [my] love, till he please.
8 The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.
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Cross-references
Song of Solomon 5:8I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I [am] sick of love.2 Samuel 6:19And he dealt among all the people, [even] among the whole multitude of Israel, as well to the women as men, to every one a cake of bread, and a good piece [of flesh], and a flagon [of wine]. So all the people departed every one to his house.Hosea 3:1Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of [her] friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.Luke 24:32And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?Psalm 63:1-3A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, thou [art] my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;Isaiah 26:8-9Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of [our] soul [is] to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.Psalm 119:130-131The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.Psalm 4:6-7[There be] many that say, Who will shew us [any] good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.Psalm 42:1-2To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah. As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.Psalm 63:8My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me.2 Samuel 13:1-2And it came to pass after this, that Absalom the son of David had a fair sister, whose name [was] Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her.Philippians 1:23For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:Song of Solomon 7:8I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples;1 Chronicles 16:3And he dealt to every one of Israel, both man and woman, to every one a loaf of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon [of wine].
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