Song of Songs 1:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

I am dark, but fair of form, O daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.

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  • Song 5:8 : 8 I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you see my loved one, what will you say to him? That I am overcome with love.
  • Ps 120:5 : 5 Sorrow is mine because I am strange in Meshech, and living in the tents of Kedar.
  • Song 2:7 : 7 I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes of the field, do not let love be moved till it is ready.
  • Song 2:14 : 14 O my dove, you are in the holes of the mountain sides, in the cracks of the high hills; let me see your face, let your voice come to my ears; for sweet is your voice, and your face is fair.
  • Song 4:3 : 3 Your red lips are like a bright thread, and your mouth is fair of form; the sides of your head are like pomegranate fruit under your veil.
  • Song 5:16 : 16 His mouth is most sweet; yes, he is all beautiful. This is my loved one, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.
  • Song 6:4 : 4 You are beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, as fair as Jerusalem; you are to be feared like an army with flags.
  • Song 8:4 : 4 I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, do not let love be moved till it is ready.
  • Isa 53:2 : 2 For his growth was like that of a delicate plant before him, and like a root out of a dry place: he had no grace of form, to give us pleasure;
  • Isa 60:7 : 7 All the flocks of Kedar will come together to you, the sheep of Nebaioth will be ready for your need; they will be pleasing offerings on my altar, and my house of prayer will be beautiful.
  • Isa 61:10 : 10 I will be full of joy in the Lord, my soul will be glad in my God; for he has put on me the clothing of salvation, covering me with the robe of righteousness, as the husband puts on a fair head-dress, and the bride makes herself beautiful with jewels.
  • Ezek 16:14 : 14 You were so beautiful that the story of you went out into all nations; you were completely beautiful because of my glory which I had put on you, says the Lord.
  • Matt 10:25 : 25 It is enough for the disciple that he may be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have given the name Beelzebub to the master of the house, how much more to those of his house!
  • Matt 22:11 : 11 But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who had not on a guest's robe;
  • Luke 13:34 : 34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, putting to death the prophets, and stoning those who were sent to her! again and again would I have taken your children to myself, as a bird takes her young ones under her wings, but you would not!
  • Luke 15:22 : 22 But the father said to his servants, Get out the first robe quickly, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet:
  • Rom 13:14 : 14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not give thought to the flesh to do its desires.
  • 1 Cor 4:10-13 : 10 We are made to seem foolish for Christ, but you are wise in Christ; we are feeble, but you are strong; you have glory, but we have shame. 11 Even to this hour we are without food, drink, and clothing, we are given blows and have no certain resting-place; 12 And with our hands we do the hardest work: when they give us curses we give blessings, when we undergo punishment we take it quietly; 13 When evil things are said about us we give gentle answers: we are made as the unclean things of the world, as that for which no one has any use, even till now.
  • 2 Cor 5:21 : 21 For him who had no knowledge of sin God made to be sin for us; so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.
  • Gal 4:26 : 26 But the Jerusalem on high is free, which is our mother.
  • Eph 5:26 : 26 So that he might make it holy, having made it clean with the washing of water by the word,
  • 1 John 3:1 : 1 See what great love the Father has given us in naming us the children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not see who we are, because it did not see who he was.
  • Song 3:5 : 5 I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes of the field, let not love be moved till it is ready.
  • Song 3:10 : 10 He made its pillars of silver, its base of gold, its seat of purple, the middle of it of ebony.
  • Ps 149:4 : 4 For the Lord has pleasure in his people: he gives the poor in spirit a crown of salvation.
  • Ps 45:9 : 9 Kings' daughters are among your noble women: on your right is the queen in gold of Ophir.
  • Ps 90:17 : 17 Let the pleasure of the Lord our God be on us: O Lord, give strength to the work of our hands.

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    10 My loved one is white and red, the chief among ten thousand.

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