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 5:8O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you, if you find my beloved, tell him I am sick with love.
• 2 Sam 6:19Then he distributed to every man and woman among the multitude of Israel a loaf of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake. And all the people departed, each for his own home.
• Hos 3:1Then the LORD said to me, “Go show love to your wife again, though she is loved by another and is an adulteress. Love her as the LORD loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and offer raisin cakes to idols.”
• Ps 4:6–7Many ask, “Who can show us the good?” Shine the light of Your face upon us, O LORD.
• Ps 119:130–131The unfolding of Your words gives light; it informs the simple.
• Ps 42:1–2For the choirmaster. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You, O God.
• 2 Sam 13:1–2After some time, David’s son Amnon fell in love with Tamar, the beautiful sister of David’s son Absalom.
• Ps 63:1–3A Psalm of David, when he was in the Wilderness of Judah. O God, You are my God. Earnestly I seek You; my soul thirsts for You. My body yearns for You in a dry and weary land without water.
• Ps 63:8My soul clings to You; Your right hand upholds me.
• Isa 26:8–9Yes, we wait for You, O LORD; we walk in the path of Your judgments. Your name and renown are the desire of our souls.
• Phil 1:23I am torn between the two. I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better indeed.
• Song 7:8I said, “I will climb the palm tree; I will take hold of its fruit.” May your breasts be like clusters of the vine, the fragrance of your breath like apples,
• Luke 24:32They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us as He spoke with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”
• 1 Chr 16:3Then he distributed to every man and woman of Israel a loaf of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake.

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