Proverbs 5:19 “A loving doe, a graceful fawn— may her breasts satisfy you always; may…”

Proverbs 5:19

A loving doe, a graceful fawn— may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivated by her love forever.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

World English Bible

A loving doe and a graceful deer— let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

Let her be as the louing hinde and pleasant roe: let her brests satisfie thee at all times, and delite in her loue continually.

Darby Translation

As a lovely hind and a graceful roe, let her breasts satisfy thee at all times: be thou ravished continually with her love.

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.

Bible in Basic English

As a loving hind and a gentle doe, let her breasts ever give you rapture; let your passion at all times be moved by her love.

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Cross references

“as the”

Song of Solomon 7:3 Song of Solomon 2:9 Song of Solomon 4:5 Song of Solomon 8:14

Song of Solomon 7:3 · BSB

Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.

Song of Solomon 2:9 · BSB

My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look, he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, peering through the lattice.

Song of Solomon 4:5 · BSB

Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle grazing among the lilies.

Song of Solomon 8:14 · BSB

Come away, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices.

“satisfy thee”

Proverbs 5:15

Proverbs 5:15 · BSB

Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.

“be thou ravished always with her love”

2 Samuel 12:4

2 Samuel 12:4 · BSB

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.”

Also

Song of Solomon 2:17

Song of Solomon 2:17 · BSB

Before the day breaks and shadows flee, turn, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of Bether.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

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

20Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?

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