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Song of Solomon 2:5
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Sustain me with raisins;refresh me with apricots,for I am lovesick.
Strengthen me with raisins, Refresh me with apples; For I am faint with love.
Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.
Sustain me with raisins; refresh me with apples, for I am sick with love.
"Refresh me with raisin cakes, Sustain me with apples, Because I am lovesick.
Strengthen me with raisins, and refresh me with apples, because I am weak with love.
"Sustain me with raisin cakes, Refresh me with apples, Because I am sick with love.
Strengthen me with raisins, Refresh me with apples; For I am faint with love.
Stay me with flagons, and comfort me with apples: for I am sicke of loue.
Sustain me with raisin cakes,Refresh me with apples,Because I am lovesick.
Sustain me with raisins; refresh me with apples, for I am faint with love.
Refresh and strengthen me with raisins and apples. I am hungry for love!
Sustain me with raisins, refresh me with apples, for I am sick with love.
Sustain ye me with raisin-cakes, Refresh me with apples; For I am sick of love.
Strengthen me with raisins; refresh me with apples, because I am weak with love.
Sustain me with delicacies, surround me with apples; for I am sick for love.
Restore my strength with raisins and refresh me with apples! I am weak from passion.
Sustain me with the raisins, refresh me with the apples, for I am lovesick.
Feed me with raisin cakes, refresh me with apples, for I am sick with love.
Refresh me wt grapes, coforte me with apples, for I am sick of loue.
Stay ye me with raisins, refresh me with apples; For I am sick from love.
Make me strong with wine-cakes, let me be comforted with apples; I am overcome with love.
'Stay ye me with dainties, refresh me with apples; for I am love-sick.'
Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples, for I am sicke of loue.
He bringeth me into his wine seller, his banner spread ouer me, whiche is his loue.
Strengthen me with perfumes, stay me with apples: for I am wounded with love.
Stay ye me with raisins, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.
Bisette ye me with flouris, cumpasse ye me with applis; for Y am sijk for loue.
Stay me with raisins, refresh me with apples; For I am sick from love.
Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I [am] sick with love.
Sustain me with raisin cakes, refresh me with apples, for I am faint with love. The Double Refrain: Embracing and Adjuration
Sustain me with cakes of raisins, Refresh me with apples, For I am lovesick.
Make me strong with cakes of dried grapes. Make me strong again with fruit, because I am sick with love.
Sustain me with raisins, refresh me with apples; for I am faint with love.
Sustain me with raisin-cakes, refresh me with apples, - for sick with love, I am.
Stay me up with flowers, compass me about with apples: because I languish with love.
Sustain me with raisins, refresh me with apples; for I am sick with love.
Sustain me with grape-cakes, Support me with citrons, for I [am] sick with love.
Oh! Give me something refreshing to eat—and quickly! Apricots, raisins—anything. I'm about to faint with love! His left hand cradles my head, and his right arm encircles my waist!
"Sustain me with raisin cakes, Refresh me with apples, Because I am lovesick.
Contextual Overview
Young Woman
Like the finest apple tree in the orchard is my lover among other young men. I sit in his delightful shade and taste his delicious fruit. 4 He escorts me to the banquet hall; it's obvious how much he loves me. 5 Strengthen me with raisin cakes, refresh me with apples, for I am weak with love. 6 His left arm is under my head, and his right arm embraces me. 7 Promise me, O women of Jerusalem, by the gazelles and wild deer, not to awaken love until the time is right.Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Stay: Psalms 4:6, Psalms 4:7, Psalms 42:1, Psalms 42:2, Psalms 63:1-3, Psalms 63:8, Isaiah 26:8, Isaiah 26:9, Luke 24:32, Philippians 1:23
flagons: 2 Samuel 6:19, Hosea 3:1
comfort me: Heb. straw me
for: Song of Solomon 5:8, 2 Samuel 13:1, 2 Samuel 13:2, Psalms 119:130, Psalms 119:131
Reciprocal: Psalms 84:2 - soul Song of Solomon 2:3 - his fruit
Cross-References
The Lord God made all sorts of trees grow up from the ground—trees that were beautiful and that produced delicious fruit. In the middle of the garden he placed the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
The first branch, called the Pishon, flowed around the entire land of Havilah, where gold is found.
The gold of that land is exceptionally pure; aromatic resin and onyx stone are also found there.
So the Lord God banished them from the Garden of Eden, and he sent Adam out to cultivate the ground from which he had been made.
Later she gave birth to his brother and named him Abel. When they grew up, Abel became a shepherd, while Cain cultivated the ground.
No longer will the ground yield good crops for you, no matter how hard you work! From now on you will be a homeless wanderer on the earth."
He gives rain for the earth and water for the fields.
You cause grass to grow for the livestock and plants for people to use. You allow them to produce food from the earth—
He causes the clouds to rise over the whole earth. He sends the lightning with the rain and releases the wind from his storehouses.
Can any of the worthless foreign gods send us rain? Does it fall from the sky by itself? No, you are the one, O Lord our God! Only you can do such things. So we will wait for you to help us.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Stay me with flagons,.... Of wine, which is a supporter of the animal spirits w. The church was now in a house of wine, where was plenty of it; even of the love of Christ, compared to wine, and preferred unto it, Song of Solomon 1:2; the church though she had had large discoveries of it, desired more; and such that have once tasted of this love are eagerly desirous of it, and cannot be satisfied until they have their fill of it in heaven: the flagons, being vessels in which wine is put, and from thence poured out, may signify the word and ordinances, in which the love of Christ is displayed and manifested; the church desires she might be stayed and supported hereby, while she was attending on Christ in them;
comfort me with apples; with exceeding great and precious promises; which, when fitly spoken and applied, are "like apples of gold in pictures of silver", Proverbs 25:11; and are very comforting: or rather, with fresh and greater manifestations of his love still; for the apple is an emblem of love, as before observed; for one to send or throw an apple to another indicated love x. It may be rendered, "strew me with apples" y; in great quantities, about me, before me, and under me, and all around me, that I may lie down among them, and be sweetly refreshed and strengthened: the words, both in this and the former clause, are in the plural number; and so may be an address to the other two divine Persons, along with Christ, to grant further manifestations of love unto her, giving the following reason for it:
for I [am] sick of love; not as loathing it, but as wanting, and eagerly desirous of more of it; being, as the Septuagint version is, "wounded" z with it; love's dart stuck in her, and she was inflamed therewith: and "languished" a; as the Vulgate Latin version is; with earnest desires after it; nor could she be easy without it, as is the case of lovers.
w "Vino fulcire venas cadentes", Senecae Ep. 95. x "Malo me Galatea petit", Virgil. Bucolic. Eclog. 3. v. 64. Vid. Theocrit. Idyll. 3. v. 10. Idyll. 6. v. 6, 7. Suidam in voce
μηλον. y רפדוני "sternite ante me", so some in Vatablus "substernite mihi", Tigurine version, Piscator. z τετρωμηνη, Sept. a "Langueo amore", V. L. so Michaelis "aegrotus" is used in this sense, in Terent. Heautont. l. 1.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The bride’s answer: “As the ‘tappuach’ with its fragrant fruit excels the barren trees of the wild wood, so my beloved his associates and friends etc.” תפוח tappûach may in early Hebrew have been a generic name for apple, quince, citron, orange etc.
Song of Solomon 2:4
His banner - As the standard is the rallying-point and guide of the individual soldier, so the bride, transplanted from a lowly station to new scenes of unaccustomed splendor, finds support and safety in the known attachment of her beloved. His “love” is her “banner.” The thought is similar to that expressed in the name “Jehovah-nissi” (see the Exodus 17:15 note).
Song of Solomon 2:5
Flagons - More probably cakes of raisins or dried grapes (2 Samuel 6:19 note; 1 Chronicles 16:3; Hosea 3:1). For an instance of the reviving power of dried fruit, see 1 Samuel 30:12.
Song of Solomon 2:6
Render as a wish or prayer: “O that his left hand were under my head, and that his right hand did embrace me!” Let him draw me to him with entire affection. Compare Deuteronomy 33:27; Proverbs 4:8.
Song of Solomon 2:7
Render: “I adjure you ... by the gazelles, or by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up nor awaken love until it please.” The King James Version, “my love,” is misleading. The affection or passion in itself, not its object, is here meant. This adjuration, three times significantly introduced as a concluding formula (marginal references), expresses one of the main thoughts of the poem; namely, that genuine love is a shy and gentle affection which dreads intrusion and scrutiny; hence the allusion to the gazelles and hinds, shy and timid creatures.
The complementary thought is that of Song of Solomon 8:6-7, where love is again described, and by the bride, as a fiery principle.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Song of Solomon 2:5. Stay me with flagons — I believe the original words mean some kind of cordials with which we are unacquainted. The versions in general understand some kind of ointment or perfumes by the first term. I suppose the good man was perfectly sincere who took this for his text, and, after having repeated, Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples, for I am sick of love sat down, perfectly overwhelmed with his own feelings, and was not able to proceed! But while we admit such a person's sincerity, who can help questioning his judgment?
