Song of Songs 2:5

Faint with love, she asks to be sustained with raisins and apples. It expresses the overwhelming intensity of love's longing.

Cross-references · 14

• Song 5:8I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, that you tell him that I am faint with love.
• 2 Sam 6:19He gave to all the people, even among the whole multitude of Israel, both to men and women, to everyone a portion of bread, dates, and raisins. So all the people departed, each to his own house.
• Hos 3:1Yahweh said to me, “Go again, love a woman loved by another, and an adulteress, even as Yahweh loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins.”
• Ps 4:6–7Many say, “Who will show us any good?” Yahweh, let the light of your face shine on us.
• Ps 119:130–131The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.
• Ps 42:1–2For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by the sons of Korah. As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God.
• 2 Sam 13:1–2After this, Absalom the son of David had a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her.
• Ps 63:1–3A Psalm by David, when he was in the desert of Judah. God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.
• Ps 63:8My soul stays close to you. Your right hand holds me up.
• Isa 26:8–9Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahweh, have we waited for you. Your name and your renown are the desire of our soul.
• Phil 1:23But I am in a dilemma between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.
• Song 7:8I said, “I will climb up into the palm tree. I will take hold of its fruit.” Let your breasts be like clusters of the vine, the smell of your breath like apples,
• Luke 24:32They said to one another, “Weren’t our hearts burning within us, while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?”
• 1 Chr 16:3He gave to everyone of Israel, both man and woman, to everyone a loaf of bread, a portion of meat, and a cake of raisins.

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