Song of Solomon 1:5-6

Expanded Bible

⁵ I’m dark ·but [or and] ·lovely [beautiful; ^Cshe was out in the sun because her brothers forced her to work the fields; v. 6],
    ·women [^Ldaughters] of Jerusalem [^Cher friends whom she is instructing about love],
    dark like the tents of Kedar [^Cdesert nomads; Gen. 25:13; Jer. 49:28–29],
    like the curtains of ·Solomon [or Salma; ^Csouth Arabian desert nomads].
⁶ Don’t look at how ·dark [swarthy] I am,
    ·at how dark the sun has made me [^Lbecause the sun scorched me].
My ·brothers [^Lmother’s sons] were angry with me
    and made me ·tend [or guard] the vineyards,
    so I haven’t ·tended [or guarded] my own ·vineyard [^Creferring to her body]!