Song of Songs 2:5

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Sustain me with grape-cakes, Support me with citrons, for I `am' sick with love.

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Referenced Verses

  • Song 5:8 : 8 I have adjured you, daughters of Jerusalem, If ye find my beloved -- What do ye tell him? that I `am' sick with love!
  • Hos 3:1 : 1 And Jehovah saith unto me: `Again, go, love a woman, loved of a friend, and an adulteress, like the loved of Jehovah, the sons of Israel, and they are turning unto other gods, and are lovers of grape-cakes.'
  • 2 Sam 6:19 : 19 and he apportioneth to all the people, to all the multitude of Israel, from man even unto woman, to each, one cake of bread, and one eshpar, and one ashisha, and all the people go, each to his house.
  • 2 Sam 13:1-2 : 1 And it cometh to pass afterwards that Absalom son of David hath a fair sister, and her name `is' Tamar, and Amnon son of David loveth her. 2 And Amnon hath distress -- even to become sick, because of Tamar his sister, for she `is' a virgin, and it is hard in the eyes of Amnon to do anything to her.
  • 1 Chr 16:3 : 3 and giveth a portion to every man of Israel, both man and woman: to each a cake of bread, and a measure of wine, and a grape-cake.
  • Ps 4:6-7 : 6 Many are saying, `Who doth show us good?' Lift on us the light of Thy face, O Jehovah, 7 Thou hast given joy in my heart, From the time their corn and their wine Have been multiplied.
  • Ps 42:1-2 : 1 To the Overseer. -- An Instruction. By sons of Korah. As a hart doth pant for streams of water, So my soul panteth toward Thee, O God. 2 My soul thirsted for God, for the living God, When do I enter and see the face of God?
  • Ps 63:1-3 : 1 A Psalm of David, in his being in the wilderness of Judah. O God, Thou `art' my God, earnestly do I seek Thee, Thirsted for Thee hath my soul, Longed for Thee hath my flesh, In a land dry and weary, without waters. 2 So in the sanctuary I have seen Thee, To behold Thy strength and Thine honour. 3 Because better `is' Thy kindness than life, My lips do praise Thee.
  • Ps 63:8 : 8 Cleaved hath my soul after Thee, On me hath Thy right hand taken hold.
  • Ps 119:130-131 : 130 The opening of Thy words enlighteneth, Instructing the simple. 131 My mouth I have opened, yea, I pant, For, for Thy commands I have longed.
  • Luke 24:32 : 32 And they said one to another, `Was not our heart burning within us, as he was speaking to us in the way, and as he was opening up to us the Writings?'
  • Phil 1:23 : 23 for I am pressed by the two, having the desire to depart, and to be with Christ, for it is far better,
  • Song 7:8 : 8 I said, `Let me go up on the palm, Let me lay hold on its boughs, Yea, let thy breasts be, I pray thee, as clusters of the vine, And the fragrance of thy face as citrons,
  • Isa 26:8-9 : 8 Also, `in' the path of Thy judgments, O Jehovah, we have waited `for' Thee, To Thy name and to Thy remembrance `Is' the desire of the soul. 9 `With' my soul I desired Thee in the night, Also, `with' my spirit within me I seek Thee earnestly, For when Thy judgments `are' on the earth, The inhabitants of the world have learned righteousness.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Song 2:3-4
    2 verses
    85%

    3 As a citron among trees of the forest, So `is' my beloved among the sons, In his shade I delighted, and sat down, And his fruit `is' sweet to my palate.

    4 He hath brought me in unto a house of wine, And his banner over me `is' love,

  • Song 2:6-7
    2 verses
    80%

    6 His left hand `is' under my head, And his right doth embrace me.

    7 I have adjured you, daughters of Jerusalem, By the roes or by the hinds of the field, Stir not up nor wake the love till she please!

  • Song 8:2-5
    4 verses
    76%

    2 I lead thee, I bring thee in unto my mother's house, She doth teach me, I cause thee to drink of the perfumed wine, Of the juice of my pomegranate,

    3 His left hand `is' under my head, And his right doth embrace me.

    4 I have adjured you, daughters of Jerusalem, How ye stir up, And how ye wake the love till she please!

    5 Who `is' this coming from the wilderness, Hasting herself for her beloved? Under the citron-tree I have waked thee, There did thy mother pledge thee, There she gave a pledge `that' bare thee.

  • Song 5:1-2
    2 verses
    75%

    1 I have come in to my garden, my sister-spouse, I have plucked my myrrh with my spice, I have eaten my comb with my honey, I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends, drink, Yea, drink abundantly, O beloved ones!

    2 I am sleeping, but my heart waketh: The sound of my beloved knocking! `Open to me, my sister, my friend, My dove, my perfect one, For my head is filled `with' dew, My locks `with' drops of the night.'

  • Song 1:2
    75%

    2 Let him kiss me with kisses of his mouth, For better `are' thy loves than wine.

  • Song 1:13-14
    2 verses
    75%

    13 A bundle of myrrh `is' my beloved to me, Between my breasts it lodgeth.

    14 A cluster of cypress `is' my beloved to me, In the vineyards of En-Gedi!

  • Song 5:6-8
    3 verses
    75%

    6 I opened to my beloved, But my beloved withdrew -- he passed on, My soul went forth when he spake, I sought him, and found him not. I called him, and he answered me not.

    7 The watchmen who go round about the city, Found me, smote me, wounded me, Keepers of the walls lifted up my veil from off me.

    8 I have adjured you, daughters of Jerusalem, If ye find my beloved -- What do ye tell him? that I `am' sick with love!

  • Song 1:4
    74%

    4 Draw me: after thee we run, The king hath brought me into his inner chambers, We do joy and rejoice in thee, We mention thy loves more than wine, Uprightly they have loved thee!

  • Song 2:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9 My beloved `is' like to a roe, Or to a young one of the harts. Lo, this -- he is standing behind our wall, Looking from the windows, Blooming from the lattice.

    10 My beloved hath answered and said to me, `Rise up, my friend, my fair one, and come away,

  • Song 7:6-13
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    74%

    6 How fair and how pleasant hast thou been, O love, in delights.

    7 This thy stature hath been like to a palm, And thy breasts to clusters.

    8 I said, `Let me go up on the palm, Let me lay hold on its boughs, Yea, let thy breasts be, I pray thee, as clusters of the vine, And the fragrance of thy face as citrons,

    9 And thy palate as the good wine --' Flowing to my beloved in uprightness, Strengthening the lips of the aged!

    10 I `am' my beloved's, and on me `is' his desire.

    11 Come, my beloved, we go forth to the field,

    12 We lodge in the villages, we go early to the vineyards, We see if the vine hath flourished, The sweet smelling-flower hath opened. The pomegranates have blossomed, There do I give to thee my loves;

    13 The mandrakes have given fragrance, And at our openings all pleasant things, New, yea, old, my beloved, I laid up for thee!

  • Prov 7:17-18
    2 verses
    73%

    17 I sprinkled my bed -- myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

    18 Come, we are filled `with' loves till the morning, We delight ourselves in loves.

  • Song 2:13
    73%

    13 The fig-tree hath ripened her green figs, And the sweet-smelling vines have given forth fragrance, Rise, come, my friend, my fair one, yea, come away.

  • Song 1:7
    73%

    7 Declare to me, thou whom my soul hath loved, Where thou delightest, Where thou liest down at noon, For why am I as one veiled, By the ranks of thy companions?

  • Song 4:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15 A fount of gardens, a well of living waters, And flowings from Lebanon!

    16 Awake, O north wind, and come, O south, Cause my garden to breathe forth, its spices let flow, Let my beloved come to his garden, And eat its pleasant fruits!

  • Song 3:3-5
    3 verses
    72%

    3 The watchmen have found me, (Who are going round about the city), `Him whom my soul have loved saw ye?'

    4 But a little I passed on from them, Till I found him whom my soul hath loved! I seized him, and let him not go, Till I brought him in unto the house of my mother -- And the chamber of her that conceived me.

    5 I have adjured you, daughters of Jerusalem, By the roes or by the hinds of the field, Stir not up nor wake the love till she please!

  • Song 4:6
    72%

    6 Till the day doth break forth, And the shadows have fled away, I will get me unto the mountain of myrrh, And unto the hill of frankincense.

  • Song 2:16-17
    2 verses
    72%

    16 My beloved `is' mine, and I `am' his, Who is delighting among the lilies,

    17 Till the day doth break forth, And the shadows have fled away, Turn, be like, my beloved, To a roe, or to a young one of the harts, On the mountains of separation!

  • Prov 5:19
    71%

    19 A hind of loves, and a roe of grace! Let her loves satisfy thee at all times, In her love magnify thyself continually.

  • Song 4:9-10
    2 verses
    70%

    9 Thou hast emboldened me, my sister-spouse, Emboldened me with one of thine eyes, With one chain of thy neck.

    10 How wonderful have been thy loves, my sister-spouse, How much better have been thy loves than wine, And the fragrance of thy perfumes than all spices.

  • Song 5:16
    70%

    16 His mouth is sweetness -- and all of him desirable, This `is' my beloved, and this my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem!

  • Song 6:1-3
    3 verses
    70%

    1 Whither hath thy beloved gone, O fair among women? Whither hath thy beloved turned, And we seek him with thee?

    2 My beloved went down to his garden, To the beds of the spice, To delight himself in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

    3 I `am' my beloved's, and my beloved `is' mine, Who is delighting himself among the lilies.

  • Song 8:14
    70%

    14 Or to a young one of the harts on mountains of spices!

  • Song 2:1
    70%

    1 As a lily among the thorns,

  • Song 6:5
    70%

    5 Turn round thine eyes from before me, Because they have made me proud. Thy hair `is' as a row of the goats, That have shone from Gilead,

  • Isa 5:1
    69%

    1 Let me sing, I pray you, for my beloved, A song of my beloved as to his vineyard: My beloved hath a vineyard in a fruitful hill,