Song of Songs 1:5

Geneva Bible (1560)

I am blacke, O daughters of Ierusalem, but comely, as the tentes of Kedar, and as the curtaines of Salomon.

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  • Song 5:8 : 8 I charge you, O daughters of Ierusalem, if you finde my welbeloued, that you tell him that I am sicke of loue.
  • Ps 120:5 : 5 Woe is to me that I remaine in Meschech, and dwell in the tentes of Kedar.
  • Song 2:7 : 7 I charge you, O daughters of Ierusalem, by the roes and by the hindes of the fielde, that ye stirre not vp, nor waken my loue, vntill she please.
  • Song 2:14 : 14 My doue, that art in the holes of ye rocke, in the secret places of the staires, shewe mee thy sight, let mee heare thy voyce: for thy voyce is sweete, and thy sight comely.
  • Song 4:3 : 3 Thy lippes are like a threede of scarlet, and thy talke is comely: thy temples are within thy lockes as a piece of a pomegranate.
  • Song 5:16 : 16 His mouth is as sweete thinges, and hee is wholy delectable: this is my welbeloued, and this is my louer, O daughters of Ierusalem.
  • Song 6:4 : 4 Thou art beautifull, my loue, as Tirzah, comely as Ierusale, terrible as an army with baners.
  • Song 8:4 : 4 I charge you, O daughters of Ierusale, that you stir not vp, nor waken my loue, vntil she please.
  • Isa 53:2 : 2 But hee shall growe vp before him as a branche, and as a roote out of a dry grounde: he hath neither forme nor beautie: when we shall see him, there shall be no forme that wee should desire him.
  • Isa 60:7 : 7 All the sheepe of Kedar shall be gathered vnto thee: the rammes of Nebaioth shall serue thee: they shall come vp to bee accepted vpon mine altar: and I will beautifie the house of my glorie.
  • Isa 61:10 : 10 I will greatly reioyce in the Lord, and my soule shall be ioyfull in my God: for he hath clothed mee with the garments of saluation, and couered me with the robe of righteousnes: hee hath decked me like a bridegrome, and as a bride tireth herselfe with her iewels.
  • Ezek 16:14 : 14 And thy name was spred among the heathen for thy beautie: for it was perfite through my beautie which I had set vpon thee, saith the Lord God.
  • Matt 10:25 : 25 It is ynough for the disciple to bee as his master is, and the seruaunt as his Lorde. If they haue called the master of the house Beel-zebub, howe much more them of his housholde?
  • Matt 22:11 : 11 Then the King came in, to see the ghestes, and sawe there a man which had not on a wedding garment.
  • Luke 13:34 : 34 O Hierusalem, Hierusalem, which killest the Prophets, and stonest them that are sent to thee, howe often would I haue gathered thy children together, as the henne gathereth her brood vnder her wings, and ye would not!
  • Luke 15:22 : 22 Then the father said to his seruaunts, Bring foorth the best robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feete,
  • Rom 13:14 : 14 But put yee on the Lorde Iesvs Christ, and take no thought for the flesh, to fulfill the lustes of it.
  • 1 Cor 4:10-13 : 10 We are fooles for Christes sake, and ye are wise in Christ: we are weake, and ye are strong: ye are honourable, and we are despised. 11 Vnto this houre we both hunger, & thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and haue no certaine dwelling place, 12 And labour, working with our owne handes: we are reuiled, and yet we blesse: we are persecuted, and suffer it. 13 We are euill spoken of, and we pray: we are made as the filth of the world, the offskowring of all things, vnto this time.
  • 2 Cor 5:21 : 21 For he hath made him to be sinne for vs, which knewe no sinne, that we should be made the righteousnesse of God in him.
  • Gal 4:26 : 26 But Hierusalem, which is aboue, is free: which is the mother of vs all.
  • Eph 5:26 : 26 That hee might sanctifie it, and clense it by the washing of water through the worde,
  • 1 John 3:1 : 1 Beholde, what loue the Father hath giuen to vs, that we should be called the sonnes of God: for this cause this world knoweth you not, because it knoweth not him.
  • Song 3:5 : 5 I charge you, O daughters of Ierusalem, by the roes and by the hindes of the fielde, that ye stirre not vp, nor waken my loue vntill she please.
  • Song 3:10 : 10 Hee made the pillars thereof of siluer, and the pauement thereof of gold, the hangings thereof of purple, whose middes was paued with the loue of the daughters of Ierusalem.
  • Ps 149:4 : 4 For the Lorde hath pleasure in his people: he will make the meeke glorious by deliuerance.
  • Ps 45:9 : 9 Kings daugthers were among thine honorable wiues: vpon thy right hand did stand the Queene in a vesture of golde of Ophir.
  • Ps 90:17 : 17 And let the beautie of the Lord our God be vpon vs, & direct thou the worke of our hands vpon vs, euen direct the worke of our handes.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Song 1:6-10
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    85%

    6 Regard ye me not because I am blacke: for the sunne hath looked vpon mee. The sonnes of my mother were angry against mee: they made me the keeper of ye vines: but I kept not mine owne vine.

    7 Shewe me, O thou, whome my soule loueth, where thou feedest, where thou liest at noone: for why should I be as she that turneth aside to the flockes of thy companions?

    8 If thou knowe not, O thou the fairest among women, get thee foorth by the steps of the flocke, and feede thy kiddes by the tents of the shepheards.

    9 I haue compared thee, O my loue, to the troupe of horses in the charets of Pharaoh.

    10 Thy cheekes are comely with rowes of stones, and thy necke with chaines.

  • Song 1:4
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    4 Drawe me: we will runne after thee: the King hath brought me into his chabers: we will reioyce and be glad in thee: we will remember thy loue more then wine: the righteous do loue thee.

  • Song 5:7-11
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    7 The watchmen that went about the citie, founde me: they smote me and wounded me: the watchmen of the walles tooke away my vaile from me.

    8 I charge you, O daughters of Ierusalem, if you finde my welbeloued, that you tell him that I am sicke of loue.

    9 O the fairest among women, what is thy welbeloued more then other welbeloued? what is thy welbeloued more then another louer, that thou doest so charge vs?

    10 My welbeloued is white and ruddie, the chiefest of ten thousand.

    11 His head is as fine golde, his lockes curled, and blacke as a rauen.

  • Song 6:4-5
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    76%

    4 Thou art beautifull, my loue, as Tirzah, comely as Ierusale, terrible as an army with baners.

    5 Turne away thine eyes from me: for they ouercome mee: thine heare is like a flocke of goates, which looke downe from Gilead.

  • Job 30:30
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    30 My skinne is blacke vpon me, & my bones are burnt with heate.

  • Song 1:14-16
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    14 My welbeloued is as a cluster of camphire vnto me in the vines of Engedi.

    15 My loue, beholde, thou art faire: beholde, thou art faire: thine eyes are like the doues.

    16 My welbeloued, beholde, thou art faire and pleasant: also our bed is greene:

  • Song 4:6-8
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    6 Vntill the day breake, and the shadowes flie away, I wil go into the mountaine of myrrhe and to the mountaine of incense.

    7 Thou art all faire, my loue, and there is no spot in thee.

    8 Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, euen with me from Lebanon, and looke from the toppe of Amanah, from the toppe of Shenir and Hermon, from the dennes of the lyons, and from the mountaines of the leopards.

  • Song 6:9-10
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    9 But my doue is alone, and my vndefiled, she is the onely daughter of her mother, and shee is deare to her that bare her: the daughters haue seene her & counted her blessed: euen the Queenes and the concubines, and they haue praised her.

    10 Who is shee that looketh foorth as the morning, fayre as the moone, pure as the sunne, terrible as an armie with banners!

  • Song 7:4-6
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    4 Thy necke is like a towre of yuorie: thine eyes are like the fishe pooles in Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim: thy nose is as the towre of Lebanon, that looketh toward Damascus.

    5 Thine head vpon thee is as skarlet, and the bush of thine head like purple: the King is tyed in the rafters.

    6 Howe faire art thou, and howe pleasant art thou, O my loue, in pleasures!

  • Song 4:1
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    1 Beholde, thou art faire, my loue: behold, thou art faire: thine eyes are like the doues: among thy lockes thine heare is like the flocke of goates, which looke downe from the mountaine of Gilead.

  • Song 7:10
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    10 I am my welbeloueds, and his desire is toward mee.

  • Song 3:5-6
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    5 I charge you, O daughters of Ierusalem, by the roes and by the hindes of the fielde, that ye stirre not vp, nor waken my loue vntill she please.

    6 Who is shee that commeth vp out of the wildernes like pillars of smoke perfumed with myrrhe and incense, and with all the spices of the marchant?

  • Lam 4:7-8
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    7 Her Nazarites were purer then the snowe, & whiter then ye milke: they were more ruddie in bodie, then the redde precious stones; they were like polished saphir.

    8 Nowe their visage is blacker then a cole: they can not knowe them in the streetes: their skinne cleaueth to their bones: it is withered like a stocke.

  • Song 5:15-16
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    72%

    15 His legges are as pillars of marble, set vpon sockets of fine golde: his countenance as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.

    16 His mouth is as sweete thinges, and hee is wholy delectable: this is my welbeloued, and this is my louer, O daughters of Ierusalem.

  • Song 2:1-3
    3 verses
    72%

    1 I am the rose of the fielde, and the lilie of the valleys.

    2 Like a lilie amog the thornes, so is my loue among the daughters.

    3 Like the apple tree among the trees of the forest, so is my welbeloued among the sonnes of men: vnder his shadow had I delite, & sate downe: and his fruite was sweete vnto my mouth.

  • Song 2:10
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    10 My welbeloued spake and said vnto me, Arise, my loue, my faire one, and come thy way.

  • Song 6:12
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    12 I knewe nothing, my soule set me as the charets of my noble people.

  • Song 6:1
    71%

    1 O the fairest among women, whither is thy welbeloued gone? whither is thy welbeloued turned aside, that we may seeke him with thee?

  • Song 3:11
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    11 Come forth, ye daughters of Zion, and behold the King Salomon with the crowne, wherewith his mother crowned him in ye day of his mariage, and in the day of the gladnes of his heart.

  • Song 5:1-2
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    71%

    1 I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I gathered my myrrhe with my spice: I ate mine hony combe with mine hony, I dranke my wine with my milke: eate, O friends, drinke, and make you mery, O welbeloued.

    2 I sleepe, but mine heart waketh, it is the voyce of my welbeloued that knocketh, saying, Open vnto mee, my sister, my loue, my doue, my vndefiled: for mine head is full of dewe, and my lockes with the droppes of the night.

  • Song 8:10
    71%

    10 I am a wall, and my breasts are as towres: then was I in his eyes as one that findeth peace.

  • Song 4:10
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    10 My sister, my spouse, how faire is thy loue? howe much better is thy loue then wine? and the sauour of thine oyntments then all spices?

  • Song 4:3
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    3 Thy lippes are like a threede of scarlet, and thy talke is comely: thy temples are within thy lockes as a piece of a pomegranate.

  • Jer 6:2
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    2 I haue compared the daughter of Zion to a beautifull and daintie woman.

  • Song 1:2
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    2 Let him kisse me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy loue is better then wine.

  • Song 8:4-5
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    4 I charge you, O daughters of Ierusale, that you stir not vp, nor waken my loue, vntil she please.

    5 (Who is this that commeth vp out of the wildernesse, leaning vpon her welbeloued?) I raysed thee vp vnder an apple tree: there thy mother conceiued thee: there she coceiued that bare thee.

  • Song 2:7
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    7 I charge you, O daughters of Ierusalem, by the roes and by the hindes of the fielde, that ye stirre not vp, nor waken my loue, vntill she please.