Now there came a traveler to the rich man, and he was loath to take one of his own flock or herd to prepare for the wayfarer who had come to him, but he took the poor man’s lamb and prepared that for the guest who had come to him.”
Proverbs 5:19 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 a lovely deer, a graceful doe. May her breasts satisfy you at all times; may you be intoxicated always by her love. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant doe [tender, gentle, attractive]–let her bosom satisfy you at all times, and always be transported with delight in her love. American Standard Version (1901) As a loving hind and a pleasant doe, Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; And be thou ravished always with her love. Common English Bible She is a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts intoxicate you all the time; always be drunk on her love. Catholic Public Domain Version a beloved doe and most pleasing fawn. Let her breasts inebriate you at all times. Be delighted continually by her love. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Let her be thy dearest hind, and most agreeable fawn: let her breasts inebriate thee at all times; he thou delighted continually with her love. |
Now there came a traveler to the rich man, and he was loath to take one of his own flock or herd to prepare for the wayfarer who had come to him, but he took the poor man’s lamb and prepared that for the guest who had come to him.”
Why should you be intoxicated, my son, by another woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?
Until the day breathes and the shadows flee, turn, my beloved, be like a gazelle or a young stag on the cleft mountains.
My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look, there he stands behind our wall, gazing in at the windows, looking through the lattice.
Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle, that feed among the lilies.
Make haste, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag upon the mountains of spices!