Parallel Verses
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.
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.
Amplified
Let her be as a loving hind and graceful doe,
Let her breasts refresh and satisfy you at all times;
Always be
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 blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years. 19 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. 20 Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?
Cross References
Song of Songs 2:9
My loved one is like a roe; see, he is on the other side of our wall, he is looking in at the windows, letting himself be seen through the spaces.
Song of Songs 4:5
Your two breasts are like two young roes of the same birth, which take their food among the lilies.
Song of Songs 7:3
Your two breasts are like two young roes of the same birth.
Song of Songs 8:14
Come quickly, my loved one, and be like a roe on the mountains of spice.
2 Samuel 12:4
Now a traveller came to the house of the man of wealth, but he would not take anything from his flock or his herd to make a meal for the traveller who had come to him, but he took the poor man's lamb and made it ready for the man who had come.
Proverbs 5:15
Let water from your store and not that of others be your drink, and running water from your fountain.
Song of Songs 2:17
Till the evening comes, and the sky slowly becomes dark, come, my loved one, and be like a roe on the mountains of Bether.