Song of Songs 1:5

World English Bible (2000)

I am dark, but lovely, you daughters of Jerusalem, like Kedar's tents, like Solomon's curtains.

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  • Song 5:8 : 8 I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, that you tell him that I am faint with love. Friends
  • Ps 120:5 : 5 Woe is me, that I live in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!
  • Song 2:7 : 7 I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires.
  • Song 2:14 : 14 My dove in the clefts of the rock, In the hiding places of the mountainside, Let me see your face. Let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely.
  • Song 4:3 : 3 Your lips are like scarlet thread. Your mouth is lovely. Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.
  • Song 5:16 : 16 His mouth is sweetness; yes, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, daughters of Jerusalem. Friends
  • Song 6:4 : 4 You are beautiful, my love, as Tirzah, lovely as Jerusalem, awesome as an army with banners.
  • Song 8:4 : 4 I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires. Friends
  • Isa 53:2 : 2 For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no form nor comeliness. When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
  • Isa 60:7 : 7 All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together to you, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister to you; they shall come up with acceptance on my altar; and I will glorify the house of my glory.
  • Isa 61:10 : 10 I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
  • Ezek 16:14 : 14 Your renown went forth among the nations for your beauty; for it was perfect, through my majesty which I had put on you, says the Lord Yahweh.
  • Matt 10:25 : 25 It is enough for the disciple that he be like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household!
  • Matt 22:11 : 11 But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who didn't have on wedding clothing,
  • Luke 13:34 : 34 "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, like a hen gathers her own brood under her wings, and you refused!
  • Luke 15:22 : 22 "But the father said to his servants, 'Bring out the best robe, and put it on him. Put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet.
  • Rom 13:14 : 14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.
  • 1 Cor 4:10-13 : 10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor. 11 Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place. 12 We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure. 13 Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.
  • 2 Cor 5:21 : 21 For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
  • Gal 4:26 : 26 But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
  • Eph 5:26 : 26 that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,
  • 1 John 3:1 : 1 Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.
  • Song 3:5 : 5 I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires.
  • Song 3:10 : 10 He made its pillars of silver, its bottom of gold, its seat of purple, its midst being paved with love, from the daughters of Jerusalem.
  • Ps 149:4 : 4 For Yahweh takes pleasure in his people. He crowns the humble with salvation.
  • Ps 45:9 : 9 Kings' daughters are among your honorable women. At your right hand the queen stands in gold of Ophir.
  • Ps 90:17 : 17 Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us; establish the work of our hands for us; yes, establish the work of our hands.

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