Proverbs 7:18
New International Version
Come, let’s drink deeply of love till morning; let’s enjoy ourselves with love!

New Living Translation
Come, let’s drink our fill of love until morning. Let’s enjoy each other’s caresses,

English Standard Version
Come, let us take our fill of love till morning; let us delight ourselves with love.

Berean Standard Bible
Come, let us take our fill of love till morning. Let us delight in loving caresses!

King James Bible
Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.

New King James Version
Come, let us take our fill of love until morning; Let us delight ourselves with love.

New American Standard Bible
“Come, let’s drink our fill of love until morning; Let’s delight ourselves with caresses.

NASB 1995
“Come, let us drink our fill of love until morning; Let us delight ourselves with caresses.

NASB 1977
“Come, let us drink our fill of love until morning; Let us delight ourselves with caresses.

Legacy Standard Bible
Come, then, let us drink our fill as lovers until morning; Let us delight ourselves with the pleasures of love.

Amplified Bible
“Come, let us drink our fill of love until morning; Let us console and delight ourselves with love.

Christian Standard Bible
Come, let’s drink deeply of lovemaking until morning. Let’s feast on each other’s love!

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Come, let’s drink deeply of lovemaking until morning. Let’s feast on each other’s love!

American Standard Version
Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning; Let us solace ourselves with loves.

Contemporary English Version
"Let's go there and make love all night.

English Revised Version
Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning; let us solace ourselves with loves.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Come, let's drink our fill of love until morning. Let's enjoy making love,

Good News Translation
Come on! Let's make love all night long. We'll be happy in each other's arms.

International Standard Version
Come, let's make love until dawn; let's comfort ourselves with love,

Majority Standard Bible
Come, let us take our fill of love till morning. Let us delight in loving caresses!

NET Bible
Come, let's drink deeply of lovemaking until morning, let's delight ourselves with sexual intercourse.

New Heart English Bible
Come, let's take our fill of loving until the morning. Let's solace ourselves with loving.

Webster's Bible Translation
Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.

World English Bible
Come, let’s take our fill of loving until the morning. Let’s solace ourselves with loving.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Come, we are filled [with] love until the morning, "" We delight ourselves in loves.

Young's Literal Translation
Come, we are filled with loves till the morning, We delight ourselves in loves.

Smith's Literal Translation
Come, we will be satisfied with loves till the morning: we will rejoice ourselves with loves.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Come, let us be inebriated with the breasts, and let us enjoy the desired embraces, till the day appear.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Come, let us be inebriated in abundance, and let us delight in the embraces of desire, until the day begins to dawn.

New American Bible
Come, let us drink our fill of love, until morning, let us feast on love!

New Revised Standard Version
Come, let us take our fill of love until morning; let us delight ourselves with love.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning; let us embrace each other with passion.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Come let us delight in love until the morning and we shall embrace each other in desire,
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning; Let us solace ourselves with loves.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Come, and let us enjoy love until the morning; come, and let us embrace in love.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Warnings about the Adulteress
17I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, with aloes, and with cinnamon. 18Come, let us take our fill of love till morning. Let us delight in loving caresses! 19For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey.…

Cross References
Proverbs 5:3-6
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. ...

Proverbs 6:24-29
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. ...

Proverbs 9:17-18
“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.

Proverbs 2:16-19
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. ...

Ecclesiastes 7:26
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.

Genesis 39:7-12
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?” ...

Judges 16:4-21
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.” ...

2 Samuel 11:2-5
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. ...

Jeremiah 3:9
Indifferent to her own infidelity, Israel had defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.

Ezekiel 16:32
You adulterous wife! You receive strangers instead of your own husband!

Matthew 5:27-28
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.

Matthew 15:19
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander.

Mark 7:21-23
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.”

Romans 1:24-27
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. ...

1 Corinthians 6:18-20
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.


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Proverbs 7
1. Solomon persuades to a sincere and kind familiarity with wisdom
6. In an example of his own experience he shows
10. the cunning of a harlot
22. and the desperate simplicity of a young wanton
24. He detests such wickedness














Come
The invitation "Come" is a beckoning call, often used in Scripture to invite someone into an action or experience. In the Hebrew context, it is a persuasive word, suggesting urgency and immediacy. This word sets the tone for the seductive and enticing nature of the invitation, drawing the listener into a decision point. It reflects the allure of temptation, which often presents itself as an appealing and immediate opportunity.

let us take our fill
The phrase "let us take our fill" implies indulgence and excess. In Hebrew, the concept of being filled often relates to satisfaction or satiation, but here it is used in a negative sense, indicating overindulgence in sinful pleasure. This reflects the deceptive nature of sin, which promises fulfillment but ultimately leads to emptiness and regret. The phrase warns against the dangers of giving in to desires that are contrary to God's will.

of love
The word "love" in this context is a euphemism for illicit sexual relations. In Hebrew, the term can refer to both genuine, godly love and its counterfeit, lust. The adulteress in Proverbs uses the language of love to mask the true nature of her intentions. This highlights the importance of discerning true love, which is selfless and pure, from lust, which is self-serving and destructive.

till morning
The phrase "till morning" suggests a temporary and fleeting encounter. In the biblical context, night often symbolizes darkness and sin, while morning represents light and righteousness. The promise of pleasure "till morning" underscores the transient nature of sinful indulgence, which offers momentary satisfaction but lacks lasting fulfillment. It serves as a reminder that true joy and peace are found in the light of God's truth.

let us delight
The invitation to "let us delight" speaks to the pursuit of pleasure. In Hebrew, delight can refer to joy and satisfaction, but here it is twisted to describe sinful enjoyment. This reflects the human tendency to seek happiness in ways that are contrary to God's design. The verse challenges believers to find their delight in the Lord, who offers true and lasting joy.

in loving caresses
The phrase "in loving caresses" is a euphemism for physical intimacy outside the bounds of marriage. In the Hebrew culture, physical affection was meant to be an expression of the covenantal love between a husband and wife. The misuse of such intimacy highlights the distortion of God's gift of sexuality. This serves as a caution against the misuse of God's gifts and a call to honor Him in all aspects of life, including relationships.

Verse 18. - Let us take our fill of love; let us intoxicate ourselves (inebriemur, Vulgate); as though the reason were overthrown by sensual passion as much as by drunkenness. The bride in Song of Solomon 1:2 says, "Thy love is better than, wine" (see Proverbs 5:15, 19, and note there),

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Come,
לְכָ֤ה (lə·ḵāh)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk

let us take our fill
נִרְוֶ֣ה (nir·weh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect Cohortative if contextual - first person common plural
Strong's 7301: To be saturated, drink one's fill

of love
דֹ֭דִים (ḏō·ḏîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 1730: To love, a love-token, lover, friend, an uncle

until
עַד־ (‘aḏ-)
Preposition
Strong's 5704: As far as, even to, up to, until, while

the morning.
הַבֹּ֑קֶר (hab·bō·qer)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1242: Dawn, morning

Let us delight
נִ֝תְעַלְּסָ֗ה (niṯ·‘al·lə·sāh)
Verb - Hitpael - Imperfect Cohortative - first person common plural
Strong's 5965: To leap for, joy, exult, wave joyously

in loving caresses!
בָּאֳהָבִֽים׃ (bā·’o·hā·ḇîm)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 159: Love (noun)


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