Parallel Verses
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.
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
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.
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 thy well-spring be blessed, - and get thy joy from the wife of thy youth: - 19 A loving hind! a graceful doe! let, her bosom, content thee at all times, and, in her love, mayst thou stray evermore. 20 Wherefore, then, shouldst thou stray, my son, with a strange woman? or embrace the bosom of a woman unknown?
Cross References
Song of Songs 2:9
Resembleth, my beloved, a gazelle, or a young stag, - Lo! here he is, standing behind our wall, looking in at the windows, peeping in at the lattice.
Song of Songs 4:5
Thy two breasts, are like two young roes, twins of a gazelle, - which pasture among lilies.
Song of Songs 7:3
Thy two breasts, are like two young roes, the twins of a gazelle:
Song of Songs 8:14
SHECome quickly, my beloved, and resemble thou a gazelle, or a young stag, upon the mountains of balsam-trees.
2 Samuel 12:4
Now there came a traveller to the rich man, but he thought it a pity to take of his own flock, or his own herd, to make ready for the wayfarer who had come to him, - so he took the lamb of his poor neighbour, and made ready for the man who had come to him.
Proverbs 5:15
Drink thou water out of thine own cistern, and flowing streams out of the midst of thine own well.
Song of Songs 2:17
Until the day, breathe, and the shadows, be lengthened, Again, liken thyself, my beloved, to a gazelle, or to a young stag, upon the cleft mountains. ****