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Song of Solomon 1:5-6
Lexham English Bible

Maiden’s Self-Description

5 I am black but beautiful,[a] O maidens of Jerusalem,[b]
    like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.
6 Do not gaze at me because I am black, [c]
    because the sun has stared at me.
The sons of my mother were angry with me;
    they made me keeper of the vineyards,
        but my own “vineyard”[d] I did not keep.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 1:5 Or “black and beautiful”
  2. Song of Solomon 1:5 Literally “O daughters of Jerusalem”
  3. Song of Solomon 1:6 This is figurative for the maiden’s physical appearance; her skin was darkly tanned
  4. Song of Solomon 1:6 Literally “my vineyard that for me”
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