Song of Solomon 2:5
Strengthen me with perfumes, 1 Stay me with apples: for I am wounded with love. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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; 1 Set love before me. 1
6His left hand shall be under my head, 1 And his right hand shall embrace me. 1
Cross References
2 Samuel 6:19And he distributed to all the people, even to all the host of Israel from Dan to Beersheba, both men and women, to everyone 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 42:1A Psalm of David. 1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause, against an ungodly nation: 1 Deliver me from the unjust and crafty man. 1
Psalms 63:8And God shall be exalted, 1 Their wounds were caused by the weapon of the foolish children, 1
Song of Solomon 5:8I have charged you, O daughters of Jerusalem, 1 By the powers and the virtues of the field: 1 If ye should find my kinsman, what are ye to say to him? 1 That I am wounded with love. 1
Isaiah 26:8For the way of the Lord is judgment: we have hoped in thy name, and on the remembrance of thee,
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 →