Song of Songs 1:6

Authorized King James Version (1611)

Look not upon me, because I [am] black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; [but] mine own vineyard have I not kept.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 69:8 : 8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.
  • Song 8:11-12 : 11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand [pieces] of silver. 12 My vineyard, which [is] mine, [is] before me: thou, O Solomon, [must have] a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.
  • Jer 8:21 : 21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
  • Jer 12:6 : 6 For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee; yea, they have called a multitude after thee: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto thee.
  • Lam 4:8 : 8 Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
  • Mic 7:6 : 6 For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man's enemies [are] the men of his own house.
  • Matt 10:22 : 22 ‹And ye shall be hated of all› [men] ‹for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.›
  • Matt 10:25 : 25 ‹It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more› [shall they call] ‹them of his household?›
  • Matt 10:35-36 : 35 ‹For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.› 36 ‹And a man's foes› [shall be] ‹they of his own household.›
  • Mark 4:6 : 6 ‹But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.›
  • Luke 12:51-53 : 51 ‹Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division:› 52 ‹For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.› 53 ‹The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.›
  • Acts 14:22 : 22 Confirming the souls of the disciples, [and] exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
  • Gal 4:29 : 29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him [that was born] after the Spirit, even so [it is] now.
  • Ruth 1:19-21 : 19 ¶ So they two went until they came to Bethlehem. And it came to pass, when they were come to Bethlehem, that all the city was moved about them, and they said, [Is] this Naomi? 20 And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me. 21 I went out full, and the LORD hath brought me home again empty: why [then] call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?
  • Job 30:30 : 30 My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

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    9I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh's chariots.

  • Job 30:30-31
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    30My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

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    5Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me: thy hair [is] as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead.

  • Lam 5:10
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    10Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

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    11His head [is as] the most fine gold, his locks [are] bushy, [and] black as a raven.

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    1¶ Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:

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  • Job 6:16
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    16Which are blackish by reason of the ice, [and] wherein the snow is hid:

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    1¶ Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? whither is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with thee.

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    8I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.

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