Proverbs 5:19

An ahab ·affectionately loving· doe and a chen ·graceful· deer— 2 let her breasts satisfy you at all times. 2 Be intoxicated always with her love. 1

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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 your spring be blessed. 2 Rejoice in the wife of your youth. 1

20For why should you, my son, be led astray, intoxicated sin ·error· with an adulteress? 2 Why embrace the bosom of another? 1

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Cross References

Proverbs 5:15Drink water out of your own cistern, 2 running water out of your own well. 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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