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15 Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well.
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15 Drink water from your own cistern, running water from your own well.
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16 Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets?
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16 Should your springs overflow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?
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17 Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.
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17 Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.
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18 Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth,
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18 May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.
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19 a lovely hind, a graceful doe. Let her affection fill you at all times with delight, be infatuated always with her love.
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19 A loving doe, a graceful deer-- may her breasts satisfy you always, may you ever be captivated by her love.
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20 Why should you be infatuated, my son, with a loose woman and embrace the bosom of an adventuress?
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20 Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another man's wife?
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| Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. (Revised Standard Version - Holy Bible) |
Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica. All rights reserved worldwide. (New International Version Bible Online) |
