14 I was almost in utter ruin amid the community and congregation.”
15 Drink water from your own cistern and running water from your own well.
16 Should your springs flow in the streets, your streams of water in public squares?
17 Let them be yours alone and not shared with strangers.
18 May your fountain be blessed and may you delight in the wife of your youth.
19 A lovely hind, a graceful doe— may her breasts satisfy you always, may you always be captivated by her love.
20 Why, my son, be captivated by a seducing woman? Why embrace a foreigner’s bosom?