Proverbs 5:19
A lovely hind and a graceful doe, let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; with her love be thou ravished always.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
18Let thy fountain be blessed; and have joy of the wife of thy youth.
20Why then wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of an alien?
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 breathe, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a gazelle or a young hart upon the mountains of spices.
Song of Solomon 7:3(7-4) Thy two breasts are like two fawns that are 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 →