Proverbs 5:19

As a loving hind and a pleasant doe, let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.

Revised Version 1895

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 rejoice in the wife of thy youth.

20For 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 be cool, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.

Song of Solomon 7:3Thy two breasts are like two fawns that are twins of a roe.

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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