A loving doe and a graceful deer — let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.
Parallel translations
- KJV 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.
- BSB A loving doe, a graceful fawn—may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivated by her love forever.
- NKJV As a loving deer and a graceful doe, Let her breasts satisfy you at all times; And always be enraptured with her love.
- NASB Like a loving doe and a graceful mountain goat, Let her breasts satisfy you at all times; Be exhilarated always with her love.
- NLT She is a loving deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts satisfy you always. May you always be captivated by her love.
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Quick answer
Let your wife's love satisfy you always and ever captivate you. Find delight and contentment in your own spouse.
Overview
Using tender imagery of a graceful doe, the father urges the husband to be satisfied and intoxicated with his wife's love at all times. This wholehearted delight in one's spouse is God's appointed safeguard against straying. It affirms the goodness of marital affection within the bounds of covenant faithfulness (Song of Songs; Heb 13:4).
Cross-references & the web
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- Song 7:3Your two breasts are like two fawns, that are twins of a roe.
- Song 2:9My beloved is like a roe or a young deer. Behold, he stands behind our wall! He looks in at the windows. He glances through the lattice.
- Song 4:5Your two breasts are like two fawns that are twins of a roe, which feed among the lilies.
- Song 8:14Come away, my beloved! Be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices!
- Song 2:17Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be like a roe or a young deer on the mountains of Bether.
- Prov 5:15Drink water out of your own cistern, running water out of your own well.
- 2 Sam 12:4A traveler came to the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to prepare for the wayfaring man who had come to him, but took the poor man’s lamb, and prepared it for the man who had come to him.”
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