Song of Songs 1:6

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Do not stare at me because I am dark, for the sun has burned my skin. My brothers were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards. Alas, my own vineyard I could not keep!

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 69:8 : 8 My own brothers treat me like a stranger; they act as if I were a foreigner.
  • Song 8:11-12 : 11 Solomon’s Vineyard and the Beloved’s VineyardThe Beloved to Her Lover: Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-Hamon; he leased out the vineyard to those who maintained it. Each was to bring a thousand shekels of silver for its fruit. 12 My vineyard, which belongs to me, is at my disposal alone. The thousand shekels belong to you, O Solomon, and two hundred shekels belong to those who maintain it for its fruit.
  • Jer 8:21 : 21 My heart is crushed because my dear people are being crushed. I go about crying and grieving. I am overwhelmed with dismay.
  • Jer 12:6 : 6 As a matter of fact, even your own brothers and the members of your own family have betrayed you too. Even they have plotted to do away with you. So do not trust them even when they say kind things to you.
  • Lam 4:8 : 8 ח(Khet) Now their appearance is darker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it is dried up, like tree bark.
  • Mic 7:6 : 6 For a son thinks his father is a fool, a daughter challenges her mother, and a daughter-in-law her mother-in-law; a man’s enemies are his own family.
  • Matt 10:22 : 22 And you will be hated by everyone because of my name. But the one who endures to the end will be saved!
  • Matt 10:25 : 25 It is enough for the disciple to become like his teacher, and the slave like his master. If they have called the head of the house‘Beelzebul,’ how much worse will they call the members of his household!
  • Matt 10:35-36 : 35 For I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, 36 and a man’s enemies will be the members of his household.
  • Mark 4:6 : 6 When the sun came up it was scorched, and because it did not have sufficient root, it withered.
  • Luke 12:51-53 : 51 Do you think I have come to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division! 52 For from now on there will be five in one household divided, three against two and two against three. 53 They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”
  • Acts 14:22 : 22 They strengthened the souls of the disciples and encouraged them to continue in the faith, saying,“We must enter the kingdom of God through many persecutions.”
  • Gal 4:29 : 29 But just as at that time the one born by natural descent persecuted the one born according to the Spirit, so it is now.
  • Ruth 1:19-21 : 19 So the two of them journeyed together until they arrived in Bethlehem. Naomi and Ruth Arrive in BethlehemWhen they entered Bethlehem, the whole village was excited about their arrival. The women of the village said,“Can this be Naomi?” 20 But she replied to them,“Don’t call me‘Naomi’! Call me‘Mara’ because the Sovereign One has treated me very harshly. 21 I left here full, but the LORD has caused me to return empty-handed. Why do you call me‘Naomi,’ seeing that the LORD has opposed me, and the Sovereign One has caused me to suffer?”
  • Job 30:30 : 30 My skin has turned dark on me; my body is hot with fever.

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