Song of Solomon 2:5
Strengthen me with perfumes, stay me with apples: for I am wounded with love.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.
In Context
4Bring me into the wine house; set love before me.
6His left hand shall be under my head, and his right hand shall embrace me.
Cross References
2 Samuel 6:19And he distributed to all the people, even to all the host of Israel from Dan to Bersabee, both men and women, to every one a cake of bread, and a joint of meat, and a cake from the frying-pan: and all the people departed every one to his home.
1 Chronicles 16:3And he divided to every man of Israel (both men and women), to every man one baker's loaf, and a cake.
Psalms 42:1Judge me, O God, and plead my cause, against an ungodly nation: deliver me from the unjust and crafty man. 1
Psalms 63:8and their tongues have set him at nothing, all that saw them were troubled; 1
Song of Solomon 5:8I have charged you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the powers and the virtues of the field: if you⌃ should find my kinsman, what are you⌃ to say to him? That I am wounded with love.
Isaiah 26:8For the way of the Lord is judgment: we have hoped in your name, and on the remembrance of you,
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 →