Proverbs 5:19 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁹ As a loving hind and a pleasant doe, Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; And be thou ravished always with her love.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ 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

¹⁹ 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)

¹⁹ 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

¹⁹ 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

¹⁹ a beloved doe and most pleasing fawn. Let her breasts inebriate you at all times. Be delighted continually by her love.

Proverbs 5:19 Cross References

Song of Solomon 7:3

Thy two breasts are like two fawns That are twins of a roe.

Song of Solomon 2:9

My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: Behold, he standeth behind our wall, He looketh in at the windows, He sheweth himself through the lattice.

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.

Song of Solomon 4:5

Thy two breasts are like two fawns that are twins of a roe, Which feed among the lilies.

Song of Solomon 2:17

Until the day be cool, and the shadows flee away, Turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart Upon the mountains of Bether.

Proverbs 5:15

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

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.

Proverbs 5:20

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