Proverbs 5:19
a beloved doe and most pleasing fawn. Let her breasts inebriate you at all times. Be delighted continually by her love.
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In Context
18Let your spring be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of your youth:
20Why are you seduced, my son, by a strange woman, and why are you kept warm by the bosom of another?
Cross References
Proverbs 5:15Drink water from your own cistern and from the springs of your own well.
Song of Solomon 2:17Chorus to Groom and Bride: Capture for us the little foxes, which are tearing down the vines; for our vineyard has flourished. Bride to Chorus: My beloved is for me, and I am for him. He pastures among the lilies, until the day rises and the shadows decline. Bride to Groom: Return, O my beloved. Be like a doe and like a young stag upon the mountains of Bether.
Song of Solomon 7:3Your navel is a round bowl, never lacking in curvature. Your abdomen is like a bundle of wheat, surrounded with lilies.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 5:16-23
Conjugal Fidelity Enjoined. 15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. 16 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets. 17 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee. 18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. 19 Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love. 20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange… Read the whole commentary →