Proverbs 5:15 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, And running waters out of thine own well. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Drink waters out of your own cistern [of a pure marriage relationship], and fresh running waters out of your own well. American Standard Version (1901) Drink waters out of thine own cistern, And running waters out of thine own well. Common English Bible Drink water from your own cistern, gushing water from your own well. Catholic Public Domain Version Drink water from your own cistern and from the springs of your own well. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Drink water out of thy own cistern, and the streams of thy own well: |
Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets?
A garden locked is my sister, my bride, a garden locked, a fountain sealed.
Do not listen to Hezekiah; for thus says the king of Assyria: Make your peace with me and come out to me; then every one of you will eat of his own vine, and every one of his own fig tree, and every one of you will drink the water of his own cistern;
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled; for God will judge the immoral and adulterous.