Proverbs 5:19
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A loving doe, a graceful fawn— may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivated by her love forever.
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The scope of this chapter is much the same with that of ch. 2. To write the same things, in other words, ought not to be grievous, for it is safe, Phi 3:1. Here is, I. An exhortation to get acquaintance with and submit to the laws of wisdom in general (Pro 5:2). II. A particular caution against the sin of whoredom (Pro 5:3-14). III. Remedies prescribed against that sin. 1. Conjugal love (Pro 5:15-20). 2. A regard to God's omniscience (Pro 5:21). 3. A dread of the miserable end of wicked people (Pro 5:22, Pro 5:23). And all little enough to arm young people against those fleshly lusts which war against the soul.
Open source ↗5:19 deer: cp. Song 4:5.
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Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.
My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look, he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, peering through the lattice.
Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle grazing among the lilies.
Come away, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices.
Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.
Before the day breaks and shadows flee, turn, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of Bether.
Now a traveler came to the rich man, who refrained from taking one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare for the traveler who had come to him. Instead, he took the poor man’s lamb and prepared it for his guest.”