Parallel Verses
Amplified
Let her be as a loving hind and graceful doe,
Let her breasts refresh and satisfy you at all times;
Always be
New American Standard Bible
Let her breasts satisfy you at all times;
Be
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.
Holman Bible
let her breasts always satisfy you;
be lost in her love forever.
International Standard Version
Like a loving deer, a beautiful doe, let her breasts satisfy you all the time. Be constantly intoxicated by her love.
A Conservative Version
a loving hind and a pleasant doe. Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times, and be thou ravished 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.
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.
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.
Julia Smith Translation
The hind of loves and the wild goat of grace; her breasts shall satiate thee in all time; thou shalt always wander in her loves.
King James 2000
Let her be as the loving deer and graceful doe; let her breasts satisfy you at all times; and be ravished always with her love.
Lexham Expanded Bible
[She is] a deer of love and a doe of grace; may her breasts satisfy you {always}; by her love may you be intoxicated continually.
Modern King James verseion
Like the loving deer and pleasant doe, let her breasts satisfy you at all times, and be ravished always with her love.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Let her be as the loving hind, and pleasant roe: let her breasts alway satisfy thee, and hold thee ever content with her love.
NET Bible
a loving doe, a graceful deer; may her breasts satisfy you at all times, may you be captivated by her love always.
New Heart English Bible
A loving doe and a graceful deer?let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.
The Emphasized Bible
A loving hind! a graceful doe! let, her bosom, content thee at all times, and, in her love, mayst thou stray evermore.
Webster
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.
Youngs 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.
Themes
Harlot (prostitute) » To be shunned
The Heart » Female of » Kind and affectionate
Husbands' » Duty of, to wives » To be faithful to them
Marriage » The duties of a husband
The roe » Illustrative of » A good wife
The roe » Described as » Cheerful
Social duties » Compassion » Conjugal love
Topics
Interlinear
Ravah
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 5:19
Verse Info
Context Readings
Do Not Commit Adultery Against Wisdom
18
Let your fountain (wife) be blessed [with the rewards of fidelity],
And rejoice in the wife of your youth.
Let her be as a loving hind and graceful doe,
Let her breasts refresh and satisfy you at all times;
Always be
Why should you, my son, be exhilarated with an immoral woman
And embrace the bosom of an outsider (pagan)?
Cross References
Song of Songs 2:9
“My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag.
Behold, he is standing behind our wall,
He is looking through the windows,
He is gazing through the lattice.
Song of Songs 4:5
“Your two breasts are like two fawns,
Twins of a gazelle
Which feed among the lilies.
Song of Songs 7:3
“Your two breasts are like two fawns,
The twins of a gazelle.
Song of Songs 8:14
(The Shulammite Bride)
“Hurry, my beloved and come quickly,
Like a gazelle or a young stag [taking me home]
On the mountains of spices.”
2 Samuel 12:4
“Now a traveler (visitor) came to the rich man,
And to avoid taking one from his own flock or herd
To prepare [a meal] for the traveler who had come to him,
He took the poor man’s ewe lamb and prepared it for
Proverbs 5:15
And fresh running water from your own well.
Song of Songs 2:17
“Until the cool of the day when the shadows flee away,
Return quickly, my beloved, and be like a gazelle
Or a young stag on the mountains of Bether [which separate us].”
Cross references:
Song of Solomon 2:6 : Deut 33:27; Matt 28:20
Song of Solomon 2:8 : John 10:27
Song of Solomon 2:16 : Matt 10:32; Acts 4:12
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