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15 Drink water from your own cistern And fresh water from your own well.
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Drink water from your own cistern, running water from your own well.
16 Should your springs be dispersed abroad, Streams of water in the streets?
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Should your springs overflow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?
17 Let them be yours alone And not for strangers with you.
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Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.
18 Let your fountain be blessed, And rejoice in the wife of your youth.
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May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.
19 As a loving hind and a graceful doe, Let her breasts satisfy you at all times; Be exhilarated always with her love.
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A loving doe, a graceful deer— may her breasts satisfy you always, may you ever be intoxicated with her love.
20 For why should you, my son, be exhilarated with an adulteress And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?
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Why, my son, be intoxicated with another man’s wife? Why embrace the bosom of a wayward woman?
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