KJV 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.
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Proverbs 5:19
[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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
A loving doe, a graceful fawn—may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivated by her love forever.
WEB World English Bible
A loving doe and a graceful deer—let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.
ASV American Standard Version
As a loving hind and a pleasant doe, Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; And be thou ravished always with her love.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
A hind of loves, and a roe of grace! Let her loves satisfy thee at all times, In her love magnify thyself continually.
Surrounding context — Proverbs 5
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 woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
21 For the ways of man [are] before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
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אַיֶּ֥לֶתH355 · ay.ya.lahdoeאֲהָבִ֗יםH158 · a.havloverוְֽיַעֲלַ֫ת־H3280 · ya.a.lahdoeחֵ֥ןH2580 · chenfavorדַּ֭דֶּיהָH1717 · dadbreastיְרַוֻּ֣ךָH7301 · ra.vahto quenchבְכָל־H3605 · kolallעֵ֑תH6256 · ettimeבְּ֝אַהֲבָתָ֗הּH160 · a.ha.vahloveתִּשְׁגֶּ֥הH7686 · sha.gahto wanderתָמִֽיד׃H8548 · ta.midcontinually
Cross-references
Song of Solomon 7:3Thy two breasts [are] like two young roes [that are] twins.Song of Solomon 4:5Thy two breasts [are] like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.Song of Solomon 2:9My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice.Song of Solomon 8:14Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.Proverbs 5:15Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.Song of Solomon 2:17Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.2 Samuel 12:4And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man’s lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.
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