Proverbs 5:19

As a lovely hind and a graceful roe, let her breasts satisfy thee at all times: be thou ravished continually with her love.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

18Let thy fountain be blessed; and have joy of the wife of thy youth.

20And why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

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Cross References

Proverbs 5:15Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.

Song of Solomon 2:17Until the day dawn, and the shadows flee away. Turn, my beloved: be thou like a gazelle or a young hart, Upon the mountains of Bether.

Song of Solomon 7:3Thy two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle;

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 →

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