Protestantism
English
Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.1
- comfort…: Heb. straw me with apples
Sustain ye me with raisin-cakes, Refresh me with apples; For I am sick of love.
Stay me with flagons, and comfort me with apples: for I am sicke of loue.
Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.
Make me strong with wine-cakes, let me be comforted with apples; I am overcome with love.
Sustain me with raisins; refresh me with apples, for I am faint with love.
Sustain me with flagons [of wine], strengthen me with apples; for I [am] sick with love.
Double Refrain: Embrace and Adjuration
Sustain me with the raisins, refresh me with the apples, ⌞for I am lovesick⌟.1
- Literally “for I myself am sick with love”
Feed me with raisin cakes, refresh me with apples, for I am sick with love.
Feed me with raisin cakes, comfort me with apples, for I am sick with love.
Strengthen me with raisins, refresh me with apples; For I am faint with love.
Strengthen me with raisins, refresh me with apples; For I am faint with love.
Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.1
- comfort…: Heb. straw me with apples.
Sustain me with raisin-cakes, refresh me with apples,—for sick with love, I am.
Sustain me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick with love.1
- comfort...: Heb. straw me with apples
Catholicism
English
Stay me up with flowers, compass me about with apples: because I languish with love.
Prop me up with flowers. Close me in with apples. For I languish through love.1
- 2:5Still the bride is speaking; this is the language of a woman, talking about being propped up with flowers and languishing due to love. Her language is figurative, not literal. +The Church languishes out of love for God, which can never be completely fulfilled in this life, but only in the next life, in Eternity with God. She asks the maidens (the virgins and the chaste) to support the Church with their prayers and obedience.(Conte)