19Let 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.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.
Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.
Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.
My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice.
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-23)Solomon, having shown the great evil that there is in adultery and fornication, and all such lewd and filthy courses, here prescribes remedies against them. I. Enjoy with satisfaction the comforts of lawful marriage, which was ordained for the prevention of uncleanness, and therefore ought to be made use of in time, lest it should not prove effectual for the cure of that which it might have preven…
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