Proverbs 5:19

for she is a loving deer and a graceful doe. 1 Let her breasts satisfy you at all times; 1 may you be continually intoxicated by her love. 1

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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

18May your fountain be blessed 1 and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth, 1

20For why should you, my son, be captivated by an adulteress; 1 why should you embrace the breasts of an immoral woman? 1

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Cross References

Proverbs 5:15Drink water from your own cistern 1 and drink running water from your own well. 1

Song of Solomon 2:17Go away, my beloved, 1 before the soft winds of dawn blow and the shadows flee away. 1 Go away; be like a gazelle or a young stag 1 on the rugged mountains.

Song of Solomon 7:3Your two breasts are like two fawns, 1 twins of a gazelle. 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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