Proverbs 5:19
17 Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.
18 May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth:
A loving doe, a graceful fawn— may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivated by her love forever.
20 Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?
21 For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and the LORD examines all his paths.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- A loving doe, a graceful fawn— may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivated by her love forever.
- KJV
- 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.
- WEB
- A loving doe and a graceful deer— let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.
- ASV
- [As] a loving hind and a pleasant doe, Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; And be thou ravished always with her love.
- DARBY
- As a lovely hind and a graceful roe, let her breasts satisfy thee at all times: be thou ravished continually with her love.
- BLB
- A loving doe and a graceful deer, let her breasts satisfy you at all times—may you wander in her love continually!
- ÅB
- Den elskelige hind og den yndefulle stengeit! Hennes barm kvege deg til enhver tid, av hennes kjærlighet være du alltid drukken!
- OTB
- En kjærlig hind, en grasiøs gaselle—måtte hennes bryster tilfredsstille deg alltid, måtte du alltid være beruset av hennes kjærlighet.
- B1930
- Den elskelige hind og den yndefulle stengjet! Hennes barm kvege dig til enhver tid, av hennes kjærlighet være du alltid drukken!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Song of Solomon 7:3
Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.
Read in contextSong of Solomon 4:5
Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle grazing among the lilies.
Read in contextSong of Solomon 8:14
Come away, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices.
Read in contextSong of Solomon 2:9
My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look, he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, peering through the lattice.
Read in contextProverbs 5:15
Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.
Read in contextSong of Solomon 2:17
Before the day breaks and shadows flee, turn, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of Bether.
Read in context2 Samuel 12:4
Now a traveler came to the rich man, who refrained from taking one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare for the traveler who had come to him. Instead, he took the poor man’s lamb and prepared it for his guest.”
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