"{Let her be as} the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always…" — Proverbs 5:19

Proverbs 5:19 · KJV

“{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. {satisfy...: Heb. water thee} {be thou...: Heb. err thou always in her love}”

— Proverbs 5:19

Verse 18

Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

Verse 20

And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

Proverbs 5 — Context

Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.

Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

{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. {satisfy...: Heb. water thee} {be thou...: Heb. err thou always in her love}

And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

For the ways of man {are} before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.

Cross References

Song of Solomon 7:3

Thy two breasts {are} like two young roes {that are} twins.

Song of Solomon 8:14

Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices. {Make...: Heb. Flee away}

Song of Solomon 2:9

My 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. {shewing...: Heb. flourishing}

Song of Solomon 4:5

Thy two breasts {are} like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.

Proverbs 5:15

Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.

Song of Solomon 2:17

Until 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. {of Bether: or, of division}

2 Samuel 12:4

And 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.