Proverbs 5:19 {20}
Good News Translation
pretty and graceful as a deer. Let her charms keep you happy; let her surround you with her love.

New Revised Standard Version
a lovely deer, a graceful doe. May her breasts satisfy you at all times; may you be intoxicated always by her love.

Contemporary English Version
She is beautiful and graceful, just like a deer; you should be attracted to her and stay deeply in love.

New American Bible
your lovely hind, your graceful doe. Of whose love you will ever have your fill, and by her ardor always be intoxicated.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Why art thou seduced, my son, by a strange woman, and art cherished in the bosom of another?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Why art thou seduced, my son, by a strange woman, and art cherished in the bosom of another?

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Songs 2:9 My beloved is like a roe, or a young hart. Behold he standeth behind our wall, looking through the windows, looking through the lattices.

Songs 4:5 Thy two breasts like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.

Songs 7:3 Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.

Songs 8:14 Flee away, O my beloved, and be like to the roe, and to the young hart upon the mountains of aromatical spices.

satisfy thee or water thee

Proverbs 5:15 Let thy fountains be conveyed abroad, and in the streets divide thy waters.

be thou always ravished with her love

Proverbs 12:4 The thoughts of the just are judgments: and the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.

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Context
Avoiding Immorality
18Let her be thy dearest hind, and most agreeable fawn: let her breasts inebriate thee at all times: be thou delighted continually with her love. 19Why art thou seduced, my son, by a strange woman, and art cherished in the bosom of another?20The Lord beholdeth the ways of man, and considereth all his steps.…
Cross References
Proverbs 5:20
The Lord beholdeth the ways of man, and considereth all his steps.

Songs 2:9
My beloved is like a roe, or a young hart. Behold he standeth behind our wall, looking through the windows, looking through the lattices.

Songs 2:17
Till the day break, and the shadows retire. Return: be like, my beloved, to a roe, or to a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.

Songs 4:5
Thy two breasts like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.

Songs 7:3
Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.

Proverbs 5:18
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