Proverbs 5:19

Let her be as the loving deer and graceful doe; 1 let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; 1 and be thou enraptured tamid (ever) with ahavat (love of) her. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 makor (fountain) be blessed; 1 and rejoice with the isha of thy youth. 1

20And why wilt thou, beni (my son), be intoxicated with a zarah (strange woman), 1 and embrace the kheyk (bosom) of a nochriyah (foreign [heathen] woman)? 1

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Cross References

Proverbs 5:15Drink mayim out of thine own bor (cistern), 1 and running waters out of thine own well. 1

Song of Solomon 2:17Until HaYom (the day) break, 1 and the shadows flee away, 1 turn, dodi (my beloved), 1 and be thou like a gazelle 1 or a young deer 1 upon the hills of Beter.

Song of Solomon 7:3Thy navel is like a round goblet, 1 which wanteth not wine: 1 thy waist is like a mound of chittim (wheat) 1 encircled by shoshanim (lilies). 1

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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