Song of Songs 2:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Make me strong with wine-cakes, let me be comforted with apples; I am overcome with love.

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Referenced Verses

  • Song 5:8 : 8 I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you see my loved one, what will you say to him? That I am overcome with love.
  • Hos 3:1 : 1 And the Lord said to me, Give your love again to a woman who has a lover and is false to her husband, even as the Lord has love for the children of Israel, though they are turned to other gods and are lovers of grape-cakes.
  • 2 Sam 6:19 : 19 And he gave to every man and woman among all the people, among all the masses of Israel, a cake of bread and a measure of wine and a cake of dry grapes. Then all the people went away, every man to his house.
  • 2 Sam 13:1-2 : 1 Now after this, it came about that Absalom, David's son, had a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar; and David's son Amnon was in love with her. 2 And he was so deeply in love that he became ill because of his sister Tamar; for she was a virgin, and so it seemed hard to Amnon to do anything to her.
  • 1 Chr 16:3 : 3 And he gave to everyone, every man and woman of Israel, a cake of bread, some meat, and a cake of dry grapes.
  • Ps 4:6-7 : 6 There are numbers who say, Who will do us any good? the light of his face has gone from us. 7 Lord, you have put joy in my heart, more than they have when their grain and their wine are increased.
  • Ps 42:1-2 : 1 <To the chief music-maker. Maschil. Of the sons of Korah.> Like the desire of the roe for the water-streams, so is my soul's desire for you, O God. 2 My soul is dry for need of God, the living God; when may I come and see the face of God?
  • Ps 63:1-3 : 1 <A Psalm. Of David. When he was in the waste land of Judah.> O God, you are my God; early will I make my search for you: my soul is dry for need of you, my flesh is wasted with desire for you, as a dry and burning land where no water is; 2 To see your power and your glory, as I have seen you in the holy place. 3 Because your mercy is better than life, my lips will give you praise.
  • Ps 63:8 : 8 My soul keeps ever near you: your right hand is my support.
  • Ps 119:130-131 : 130 The opening of your words gives light; it gives good sense to the simple. 131 My mouth was open wide, waiting with great desire for your teachings.
  • Luke 24:32 : 32 And they said to one another, Were not our hearts burning in us while he was talking to us on the way, making clear to us the holy Writings?
  • Phil 1:23 : 23 I am in a hard position between the two, having a desire to go away and be with Christ, which is very much better:
  • Song 7:8 : 8 I said, Let me go up the palm-tree, and let me take its branches in my hands: your breasts will be as the fruit of the vine, and the smell of your breath like apples;
  • Isa 26:8-9 : 8 We have been waiting for you, O Lord; the desire of our soul is for the memory of your name. 9 In the night the desire of my soul has been for you; early will my spirit be searching for you; for when your punishments come on the earth, the people of the world will get the knowledge of righteousness.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Song 2:3-4
    2 verses
    85%

    3 As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood, so is my loved one among the sons. I took my rest under his shade with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.

    4 He took me to the house of wine, and his flag over me was love.

  • Song 2:6-7
    2 verses
    80%

    6 His left hand is under my head, and his right hand is round about me.

    7 I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes of the field, do not let love be moved till it is ready.

  • Song 8:2-5
    4 verses
    76%

    2 I would take you by the hand into my mother's house, and she would be my teacher. I would give you drink of spiced wine, drink of the pomegranate.

    3 His left hand would be under my head, and his right hand about me.

    4 I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, do not let love be moved till it is ready.

    5 Who is this, who comes up from the waste places, resting on her loved one? It was I who made you awake under the apple-tree, where your mother gave you birth; there she was in pain at your birth.

  • Song 5:1-2
    2 verses
    75%

    1 I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride; to take my myrrh with my spice; my wax with my honey; my wine with my milk. Take meat, O friends; take wine, yes, be overcome with love.

    2 I am sleeping, but my heart is awake; it is the sound of my loved one at the door, saying, Be open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my very beautiful one; my head is wet with dew, and my hair with the drops of the night.

  • Song 1:2
    75%

    2 Let him give me the kisses of his mouth: for his love is better than wine.

  • Song 1:13-14
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    75%

    13 As a bag of myrrh is my well-loved one to me, when he is at rest all night between my breasts.

    14 My love is to me as a branch of the cypress-tree in the vine-gardens of En-gedi.

  • Song 5:6-8
    3 verses
    75%

    6 I made the door open to my loved one; but my loved one had taken himself away, and was gone, my soul was feeble when his back was turned on me; I went after him, but I did not come near him; I said his name, but he gave me no answer.

    7 The keepers who go about the town overtook me; they gave me blows and wounds; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.

    8 I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you see my loved one, what will you say to him? That I am overcome with love.

  • Song 1:4
    74%

    4 Take me to you, and we will go after you: the king has taken me into his house. We will be glad and full of joy in you, we will give more thought to your love than to wine: rightly are they your lovers.

  • Song 2:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9 My loved one is like a roe; see, he is on the other side of our wall, he is looking in at the windows, letting himself be seen through the spaces.

    10 My loved one said to me, Get up, my love, my fair one, and come away.

  • Song 7:6-13
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    74%

    6 How beautiful and how sweet you are, O love, for delight.

    7 You are tall like a palm-tree, and your breasts are like the fruit of the vine.

    8 I said, Let me go up the palm-tree, and let me take its branches in my hands: your breasts will be as the fruit of the vine, and the smell of your breath like apples;

    9 And the roof of your mouth like good wine flowing down smoothly for my loved one, moving gently over my lips and my teeth.

    10 I am for my loved one, and his desire is for me.

    11 Come, my loved one, let us go out into the field; let us take rest among the cypress-trees.

    12 Let us go out early to the vine-gardens; let us see if the vine is in bud, if it has put out its young fruit, and the pomegranate is in flower. There I will give you my love.

    13 The mandrakes give out a sweet smell, and at our doors are all sorts of good fruits, new and old, which I have kept for my loved one.

  • Prov 7:17-18
    2 verses
    73%

    17 I have made my bed sweet with perfumes and spices.

    18 Come, let us take our pleasure in love till the morning, having joy in love's delights.

  • Song 2:13
    73%

    13 The fig-tree puts out her green fruit and the vines with their young fruit give a good smell. Get up from your bed, my beautiful one, and come away.

  • Song 1:7
    73%

    7 Say, O love of my soul, where you give food to your flock, and where you make them take their rest in the heat of the day; why have I to be as one wandering by the flocks of your friends?

  • Song 4:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15 You are a fountain of gardens, a spring of living waters, and flowing waters from Lebanon.

    16 Be awake, O north wind; and come, O south, blowing on my garden, so that its spices may come out. Let my loved one come into his garden, and take of his good fruits.

  • Song 3:3-5
    3 verses
    72%

    3 The watchmen who go about the town came by me; to them I said, Have you seen him who is my heart's desire?

    4 I was but a little way from them, when I came face to face with him who is the love of my soul. I took him by the hands, and did not let him go, till I had taken him into my mother's house, and into the room of her who gave me birth.

    5 I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes of the field, let not love be moved till it is ready.

  • Song 4:6
    72%

    6 Till the evening comes, and the sky slowly becomes dark, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.

  • Song 2:16-17
    2 verses
    72%

    16 My loved one is mine, and I am his: he takes his food among the flowers.

    17 Till the evening comes, and the sky slowly becomes dark, come, my loved one, and be like a roe on the mountains of Bether.

  • Prov 5:19
    71%

    19 As a loving hind and a gentle doe, let her breasts ever give you rapture; let your passion at all times be moved by her love.

  • Song 4:9-10
    2 verses
    70%

    9 You have taken away my heart, my sister, my bride; you have taken away my heart, with one look you have taken it, with one chain of your neck!

    10 How fair is your love, my sister! How much better is your love than wine, and the smell of your oils than any perfume!

  • Song 5:16
    70%

    16 His mouth is most sweet; yes, he is all beautiful. This is my loved one, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

  • Song 6:1-3
    3 verses
    70%

    1 Where is your loved one gone, O most fair among women? Where is your loved one turned away, that we may go looking for him with you?

    2 My loved one is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to take food in the gardens, and to get lilies.

    3 I am for my loved one, and my loved one is for me; he takes food among the lilies.

  • Song 8:14
    70%

    14 Come quickly, my loved one, and be like a roe on the mountains of spice.

  • Song 2:1
    70%

    1 I am a rose of Sharon, a flower of the valleys.

  • Song 6:5
    70%

    5 Let your eyes be turned away from me; see, they have overcome me; your hair is as a flock of goats which take their rest on the side of Gilead.

  • Isa 5:1
    69%

    1 Let me make a song about my loved one, a song of love for his vine-garden. My loved one had a vine-garden on a fertile hill: