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Let’s enjoy each other’s caresses,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/proverbs/7.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />Come, let us take our fill of love till morning; let us delight ourselves with love.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/proverbs/7.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />Come, let us take our fill of love till morning. Let us delight in loving caresses!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/proverbs/7.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/proverbs/7.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />Come, let us take our fill of love until morning; Let us delight ourselves with love.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/proverbs/7.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />“Come, let’s drink our fill of love until morning; Let’s delight ourselves with caresses.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/proverbs/7.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8220Come, let us drink our fill of love until morning; Let us delight ourselves with caresses.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/proverbs/7.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />“Come, let us drink our fill of love until morning; Let us delight ourselves with caresses.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/proverbs/7.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />Come, then, let us drink our fill as lovers until morning; Let us delight ourselves with the pleasures of love.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/proverbs/7.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />“Come, let us drink our fill of love until morning; Let us console <i>and</i> delight ourselves with love.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/proverbs/7.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Come, let’s drink deeply of lovemaking until morning. Let’s feast on each other’s love!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/proverbs/7.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Come, let&#8217s drink deeply of lovemaking until morning. Let&#8217s feast on each other&#8217s love! <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/proverbs/7.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning; Let us solace ourselves with loves.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/proverbs/7.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />"Let's go there and make love all night. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/proverbs/7.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning; let us solace ourselves with loves.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/proverbs/7.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />Come, let's drink our fill of love until morning. Let's enjoy making love,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/proverbs/7.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Come on! Let's make love all night long. We'll be happy in each other's arms. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/proverbs/7.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />Come, let's make love until dawn; let's comfort ourselves with love,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/proverbs/7.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />Come, let us take our fill of love till morning. Let us delight in loving caresses!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/proverbs/7.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />Come, let's drink deeply of lovemaking until morning, let's delight ourselves with sexual intercourse. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/proverbs/7.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />Come, let's take our fill of loving until the morning. Let's solace ourselves with loving.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/proverbs/7.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/proverbs/7.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Come, let’s take our fill of loving until the morning. Let’s solace ourselves with loving. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/proverbs/7.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />Come, we are filled [with] love until the morning, "" We delight ourselves in loves.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/proverbs/7.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Come, we are filled with loves till the morning, We delight ourselves in loves.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/proverbs/7.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />Come, we will be satisfied with loves till the morning: we will rejoice ourselves with loves.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/proverbs/7.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Come, let us be inebriated with the breasts, and let us enjoy the desired embraces, till the day appear. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/proverbs/7.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />Come, let us be inebriated in abundance, and let us delight in the embraces of desire, until the day begins to dawn.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/proverbs/7.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Come, let us drink our fill of love, until morning, let us feast on love! <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/proverbs/7.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Come, let us take our fill of love until morning; let us delight ourselves with love.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/proverbs/7.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning; let us embrace each other with passion.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/proverbs/7.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />Come let us delight in love until the morning and we shall embrace each other in desire,<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/proverbs/7.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning; Let us solace ourselves with loves.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/proverbs/7.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />Come, and let us enjoy love until the morning; come, and let us embrace in love.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/7-18.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kpUA5ZltBeQ?start=1229" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/proverbs/7.htm">Warnings about the Adulteress</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">17</span>I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, with aloes, and with cinnamon. <span class="reftext">18</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/1980.htm" title="1980: lə·ḵāh (V-Qal-Imp-ms:: 3fs) -- To go, come, walk. Akin to yalak; a primitive root; to walk.">Come,</a> <a href="/hebrew/7301.htm" title="7301: nir·weh (V-Qal-Imperf.h-1cp) -- To be saturated, drink one's fill. A primitive root; to slake the thirst.">let us take our fill</a> <a href="/hebrew/1730.htm" title="1730: ḏō·ḏîm (N-mp) -- Or dod; from an unused root meaning properly, to boil, i.e. to love; by implication, a love- token, lover, friend; specifically an uncle.">of love</a> <a href="/hebrew/5704.htm" title="5704: ‘aḏ- (Prep) -- As far as, even to, up to, until, while. Properly, the same as ad; as far as, whether of space or time or degree.">till</a> <a href="/hebrew/1242.htm" title="1242: hab·bō·qer (Art:: N-ms) -- Morn- ing. From baqar; properly, dawn; generally, morning.">morning.</a> <a href="/hebrew/5965.htm" title="5965: niṯ·‘al·lə·sāh (V-Hitpael-Imperf.Cohort-1cp) -- To rejoice. A primitive root; to leap for joy, i.e. Exult, wave joyously.">Let us delight</a> <a href="/hebrew/159.htm" title="159: bā·’o·hā·ḇîm (Prep-b:: N-mp) -- Love (noun). From 'adash; meaning the same as 'ahab.">in loving caresses!</a> </span><span class="reftext">19</span>For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/proverbs/5-3.htm">Proverbs 5:3-6</a></span><br />Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil, / in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a double-edged sword. / Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to Sheol. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/proverbs/6-24.htm">Proverbs 6:24-29</a></span><br />to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress. / Do not lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes. / For the levy of the prostitute is poverty, and the adulteress preys upon your very life. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/proverbs/9-17.htm">Proverbs 9:17-18</a></span><br />“Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is tasty!” / But they do not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/proverbs/2-16.htm">Proverbs 2:16-19</a></span><br />It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words / who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God. / For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ecclesiastes/7-26.htm">Ecclesiastes 7:26</a></span><br />And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/genesis/39-7.htm">Genesis 39:7-12</a></span><br />and after some time his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph and said, “Sleep with me.” / But he refused. “Look,” he said to his master’s wife, “with me here, my master does not concern himself with anything in his house, and he has entrusted everything he owns to my care. / No one in this house is greater than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. So how could I do such a great evil and sin against God?” ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/judges/16-4.htm">Judges 16:4-21</a></span><br />Some time later, Samson fell in love with a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. / The lords of the Philistines went to her and said, “Entice him and find out the source of his great strength and how we can overpower him to tie him up and subdue him. Then each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver.” / So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me the source of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued.” ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_samuel/11-2.htm">2 Samuel 11:2-5</a></span><br />One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing—a very beautiful woman. / So David sent and inquired about the woman, and he was told, “This is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.” / Then David sent messengers to get her, and when she came to him, he slept with her. (Now she had just purified herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned home. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/3-9.htm">Jeremiah 3:9</a></span><br />Indifferent to her own infidelity, Israel had defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/16-32.htm">Ezekiel 16:32</a></span><br />You adulterous wife! You receive strangers instead of your own husband!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/5-27.htm">Matthew 5:27-28</a></span><br />You have heard that it was said, ‘Do not commit adultery.’ / But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/15-19.htm">Matthew 15:19</a></span><br />For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/mark/7-21.htm">Mark 7:21-23</a></span><br />For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, / greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness. / All these evils come from within, and these are what defile a man.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/1-24.htm">Romans 1:24-27</a></span><br />Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another. / They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is forever worthy of praise! Amen. / For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/6-18.htm">1 Corinthians 6:18-20</a></span><br />Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. / Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; / you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/proverbs/4-21.htm">Deep</a> <a href="/proverbs/5-19.htm">Delight</a> <a href="/proverbs/3-12.htm">Delights</a> <a href="/proverbs/5-15.htm">Drink</a> <a href="/psalms/106-5.htm">Enjoy</a> <a href="/proverbs/6-30.htm">Fill</a> <a href="/proverbs/5-10.htm">Filled</a> <a href="/proverbs/5-18.htm">Joy</a> <a href="/proverbs/1-12.htm">Let's</a> <a href="/proverbs/5-19.htm">Loves</a> <a href="/proverbs/4-18.htm">Morning</a> <a href="/psalms/132-7.htm">Ourselves</a> <a href="/proverbs/2-14.htm">Pleasure</a> <a href="/job/16-5.htm">Solace</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/proverbs/8-24.htm">Deep</a> <a href="/proverbs/8-30.htm">Delight</a> <a href="/proverbs/8-11.htm">Delights</a> <a href="/proverbs/9-5.htm">Drink</a> <a href="/proverbs/14-9.htm">Enjoy</a> <a href="/proverbs/8-21.htm">Fill</a> <a href="/proverbs/7-20.htm">Filled</a> <a href="/proverbs/10-1.htm">Joy</a> <a href="/songs/7-12.htm">Let's</a> <a href="/proverbs/12-1.htm">Loves</a> <a href="/proverbs/27-14.htm">Morning</a> <a href="/isaiah/7-6.htm">Ourselves</a> <a href="/proverbs/10-23.htm">Pleasure</a> <a href="/job/16-5.htm">Solace</a><div class="vheading2">Proverbs 7</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/proverbs/7-1.htm">Solomon persuades to a sincere and kind familiarity with wisdom</a></span><br><span class="reftext">6. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/proverbs/7-6.htm">In an example of his own experience he shows</a></span><br><span class="reftext">10. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/proverbs/7-10.htm">the cunning of a harlot</a></span><br><span class="reftext">22. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/proverbs/7-22.htm">and the desperate simplicity of a young wanton</a></span><br><span class="reftext">24. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/proverbs/7-24.htm">He detests such wickedness</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /><br /> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/proverbs/7.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/proverbs/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/proverbs/7.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div><b>Come, let us take our fill of love till morning.</b><br>This phrase is a seductive invitation, reflecting the allure of forbidden pleasures. In the biblical context, it is part of a larger narrative warning against the dangers of adultery and the seductive nature of sin. The use of "love" here is a euphemism for illicit sexual relations, contrasting with the biblical ideal of love within the covenant of marriage (<a href="/genesis/2-24.htm">Genesis 2:24</a>, <a href="/hebrews/13-4.htm">Hebrews 13:4</a>). The phrase "till morning" suggests a temporary, fleeting pleasure, highlighting the short-lived satisfaction of sin compared to the enduring joy found in righteous living (<a href="/psalms/16-11.htm">Psalm 16:11</a>). The invitation to indulge "till morning" also reflects the cultural practices of the time, where night was often associated with secrecy and moral laxity (<a href="/john/3-19.htm">John 3:19-20</a>).<p><b>Let us delight in loving caresses!</b><br>This part of the verse emphasizes the physical and sensual aspect of the temptation. The word "delight" indicates a pursuit of pleasure that is self-centered and contrary to the selfless love described in <a href="/1_corinthians/13.htm">1 Corinthians 13</a>. The term "loving caresses" is a further euphemism for sexual intimacy, which, outside the bounds of marriage, is portrayed in Scripture as destructive (<a href="/proverbs/6-32.htm">Proverbs 6:32-33</a>). This phrase serves as a caution against being swayed by the immediate gratification of the senses, reminding believers of the call to purity and holiness (<a href="/1_thessalonians/4-3.htm">1 Thessalonians 4:3-5</a>). The seductive language used here is a reminder of the deceptive nature of sin, which often presents itself as harmless or even desirable, yet leads to spiritual and moral decay (<a href="/james/1-14.htm">James 1:14-15</a>).<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_seductress.htm">The Seductress</a></b><br>A central figure in <a href="/bsb/proverbs/7.htm">Proverbs 7</a>, she represents temptation and the allure of sin. Her words are enticing, aiming to lead the young man astray.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_young_man.htm">The Young Man</a></b><br>A symbol of naivety and vulnerability, he is the target of the seductress's advances. His lack of wisdom makes him susceptible to her temptations.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_house_of_the_seductress.htm">The House of the Seductress</a></b><br>Represents a place of danger and moral compromise. It is where the seductress lures the young man, away from the path of righteousness.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/s/solomon.htm">Solomon</a></b><br>Traditionally considered the author of Proverbs, he uses this account to impart wisdom and warn against the dangers of succumbing to temptation.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_night.htm">The Night</a></b><br>Symbolic of secrecy and sin, the night is when the seductress invites the young man to indulge in forbidden pleasures.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/t/the_deceptive_nature_of_sin.htm">The Deceptive Nature of Sin</a></b><br>Sin often presents itself as pleasurable and fulfilling, but its end is destruction. We must be vigilant and discerning to recognize and resist temptation.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_wisdom_and_discernment.htm">The Importance of Wisdom and Discernment</a></b><br>Proverbs emphasizes the need for wisdom to navigate life's challenges. Seeking God's wisdom helps us make righteous choices and avoid the pitfalls of sin.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/g/guarding_our_hearts_and_minds.htm">Guarding Our Hearts and Minds</a></b><br>We must be proactive in guarding our hearts and minds against influences that lead us away from God. This involves immersing ourselves in Scripture and prayer.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_consequences_of_yielding_to_temptation.htm">The Consequences of Yielding to Temptation</a></b><br>Yielding to temptation can have severe consequences, not only spiritually but also relationally and emotionally. Understanding this helps us to resist and seek God's strength.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_role_of_accountability.htm">The Role of Accountability</a></b><br>Having accountability partners can help us stay on the right path. Sharing our struggles with trusted believers provides support and encouragement.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_proverbs_7.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Proverbs 7</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/main_themes_of_bible's_books.htm">What are the main themes of the Bible's books?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_does_the_bible_guide_emotions.htm">How does the Bible guide emotional management?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/bible's_teachings_on_marriage.htm">What are the Bible's teachings on marriage?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/is_joel_1_5's_call_to_drunkards_unique.htm">Does Joel 1:5's emphasis on drunkards mourning align with other biblical calls to repentance, or is this focus unique and contradictory?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/proverbs/7.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 18.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Let us take our fill of love;</span> <span class="accented">let us intoxicate ourselves</span> (<span class="accented">inebriemur</span>, Vulgate); as though the reason were overthrown by sensual passion as much as by drunkenness. The bride in <a href="/songs/1-2.htm">Song of Solomon 1:2</a> says, "Thy love is better than, wine" (see <a href="/proverbs/5-15.htm">Proverbs 5:15, 19</a>, and note there), <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/proverbs/7-18.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">Come,</span><br /><span class="heb">לְכָ֤ה</span> <span class="translit">(lə·ḵāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular | third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1980.htm">Strong's 1980: </a> </span><span class="str2">To go, come, walk</span><br /><br /><span class="word">let us take our fill</span><br /><span class="heb">נִרְוֶ֣ה</span> <span class="translit">(nir·weh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect Cohortative if contextual - first person common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7301.htm">Strong's 7301: </a> </span><span class="str2">To be saturated, drink one's fill</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of love</span><br /><span class="heb">דֹ֭דִים</span> <span class="translit">(ḏō·ḏîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1730.htm">Strong's 1730: </a> </span><span class="str2">To love, a love-token, lover, friend, an uncle</span><br /><br /><span class="word">until</span><br /><span class="heb">עַד־</span> <span class="translit">(‘aḏ-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5704.htm">Strong's 5704: </a> </span><span class="str2">As far as, even to, up to, until, while</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the morning.</span><br /><span class="heb">הַבֹּ֑קֶר</span> <span class="translit">(hab·bō·qer)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1242.htm">Strong's 1242: </a> </span><span class="str2">Dawn, morning</span><br /><br /><span class="word">Let us delight</span><br /><span class="heb">נִ֝תְעַלְּסָ֗ה</span> <span class="translit">(niṯ·‘al·lə·sāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Hitpael - Imperfect Cohortative - first person common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5965.htm">Strong's 5965: </a> </span><span class="str2">To leap for, joy, exult, wave joyously</span><br /><br /><span class="word">in loving caresses!</span><br /><span class="heb">בָּאֳהָבִֽים׃</span> <span class="translit">(bā·’o·hā·ḇîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_159.htm">Strong's 159: </a> </span><span class="str2">Love (noun)</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/proverbs/7-18.htm">Proverbs 7:18 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/proverbs/7-18.htm">Proverbs 7:18 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/proverbs/7-18.htm">Proverbs 7:18 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/proverbs/7-18.htm">Proverbs 7:18 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/proverbs/7-18.htm">Proverbs 7:18 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/proverbs/7-18.htm">Proverbs 7:18 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/proverbs/7-18.htm">Proverbs 7:18 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/proverbs/7-18.htm">Proverbs 7:18 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/proverbs/7-18.htm">Proverbs 7:18 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/proverbs/7-18.htm">Proverbs 7:18 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/proverbs/7-18.htm">OT Poetry: Proverbs 7:18 Come let's take our fill of loving (Prov. 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