Song of Songs 1:6
Don't stare at me because I am dark, because the sun has scorched me. My mother's sons were angry with me. They made me keeper of the vineyards. I haven't kept my own vineyard.
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Referenced Verses
- Ps 69:8 : 8 I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother's children.
- Song 8:11-12 : 11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baal Hamon. He leased out the vineyard to keepers. Each was to bring a thousand shekels of silver for its fruit. 12 My own vineyard is before me. The thousand are for you, Solomon; two hundred for those who tend its fruit. Lover
- Jer 8:21 : 21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt: I mourn; dismay has taken hold on me.
- Jer 12:6 : 6 For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you; even they have cried aloud after you: don't believe them, though they speak beautiful words to you.
- Lam 4:8 : 8 Their appearance is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: Their skin clings to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
- Mic 7:6 : 6 For the son dishonors the father, the daughter rises 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 You will be hated by all men for my name's sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.
- 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 10:35-36 : 35 For I came to set a man at odds against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. 36 A man's foes will be those of his own household.
- Mark 4:6 : 6 When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.
- Luke 12:51-53 : 51 Do you think that I have come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, no, but rather division. 52 For from now on, there will be five in one house 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 her mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."
- Acts 14:22 : 22 confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into the Kingdom of God.
- Gal 4:29 : 29 But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.
- Ruth 1:19-21 : 19 So they two went until they came to Bethlehem. It happened, when they were come to Bethlehem, that all the city was moved about them, and [the women] said, "Is this Naomi?" 20 She said to them, "Don't call me Naomi. Call me Mara; for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me. 21 I went out full, and Yahweh has brought me home again empty; why do you call me Naomi, since Yahweh has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?"
- Job 30:30 : 30 My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.
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16 Which are black by reason of the ice, in which the snow hides itself.
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7 My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.
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7 My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of all my adversaries.
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2 Why are you red in your clothing, and your garments like him who treads in the wine vat?
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8 My heritage is become to me as a lion in the forest: she has uttered her voice against me; therefore I have hated her.
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8 I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother's children.
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5 Who is this who comes up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? Under the apple tree I aroused you. There your mother conceived you. There she was in labor and bore you.