GOD'S WORD Translation GW
New International Version NIV
15 Drink water out of your own cistern and running water from your own well.
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Drink water from your own cistern, running water from your own well.
16 Why should water flow out of your spring? Why should your streams flow into the streets?
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Should your springs overflow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?
17 They should be yours alone, so do not share them with strangers.
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Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.
18 Let your own fountain be blessed, and enjoy the girl you married when you were young,
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May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.
19 a loving doe and a graceful deer. Always let her breasts satisfy you. Always be intoxicated 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 Why should you, my son, be intoxicated with an adulterous woman and fondle a loose woman's breast?
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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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