Song of Solomon 2:5
Stay me up with flowers, compass me about with apples: because I languish with love.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.
In Context
4He brought me into the cellar of wine, he set in order charity in me.
6His left hand is under my head, and his right hand shall embrace me.
Cross References
2 Samuel 6:19And he distributed to all the multitude of Israel both men and women, to every one, a cake of bread, and a piece of roasted beef, and fine flour fried with oil: and all the people departed every one to his house.
1 Chronicles 16:3And he divided to all and every one, both men and women, a loaf of bread, and a piece of roasted beef, and flour fried with oil.
Psalms 42:1Unto the end, understanding for the sons of Core.
Psalms 63:8because thou hast been my helper. And I will rejoice under the covert of thy wings:
Song of Solomon 5:8I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him that I languish with love.
Isaiah 26:8And in the way of thy judgments, O Lord, we have patiently waited for thee: thy name, and thy remembrance are the desire of the soul.
Matthew Henry on Song of Solomon 2:4-8
The Love of the Church to Christ. 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… Read the whole commentary →