Misinterpretations often reduce the verse to crude sexual objectification or lustful indulgence without commitment, ignoring its context in Proverbs 5's warnings against the adulteress; some view it as endorsing polygamy, promiscuity, or male dominance, or misread 'ravished' literally as violence rather than enraptured delight, overlooking the call for mutual, faithful devotion to one's own spouse.
Proverbs 5:19
King James Version (1769)
19 Let 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.
Proverbs 5:19 urges a husband to find complete satisfaction and ongoing delight in his wife's affectionate love and physical intimacy, portraying her as a loving hind and pleasant roe whose breasts ravish him always, emphasizing exclusive marital passion as a safeguard against adultery and a pathway to joyful fidelity within the covenant of marriage.