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18 Let your fountain be blessed and have joy of the wife of your youth,
19     your lovely hind, your graceful doe.[a]
Of whose love you will ever have your fill,
    and by her ardor always be intoxicated.
20 Why then, my son, should you be intoxicated with a stranger,
    and embrace another woman?

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Footnotes

  1. 5:19 Lovely hind…graceful doe: ancient Near Eastern symbols of feminine beauty and charm; cf. Sg 2:7, 9, 17.