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 charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.
• 2 Sam 6:19And he dealt among all the people, even among the whole multitude of Israel, as well to the women as men, to every one a cake of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of wine. So all the people departed every one to his house.
• Hos 3:1Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.
• Ps 4:6–7There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
• Ps 119:130–131The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.
• Ps 42:1–2As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
• 2 Sam 13:1–2And it came to pass after this, that Absalom the son of David had a fair sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her.
• Ps 63:1–3O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
• Ps 63:8My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me.
• Isa 26:8–9Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.
• Phil 1:23For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:
• Song 7:8I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples;
• Luke 24:32And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?
• 1 Chr 16:3And he dealt to every one of Israel, both man and woman, to every one a loaf of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of wine.

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