Verse 6

Fear me not, because I `am' very dark, Because the sun hath scorched me, The sons of my mother were angry with me, They made me keeper of the vineyards, My vineyard -- my own -- I have not kept.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 69:8 : 8 A stranger I have been to my brother, And a foreigner to sons of my mother.
  • Song 8:11-12 : 11 Solomon hath a vineyard in Baal-Hamon, He hath given the vineyard to keepers, Each bringeth for its fruit a thousand silverlings; 12 My vineyard -- my own -- is before me, The thousand `is' for thee, O Solomon. And the two hundred for those keeping its fruit. O dweller in gardens!
  • Jer 8:21 : 21 For a breach of the daughter of my people have I been broken, I have been black, astonishment hath seized me.
  • Jer 12:6 : 6 For even thy brethren and the house of thy father, Even they dealt treacherously against thee, Even they -- they called after thee fully, Trust not in them, when they speak to thee good things.
  • Lam 4:8 : 8 Darker than blackness hath been their visage, They have not been known in out-places, Cleaved hath their skin unto their bone, It hath withered -- it hath been as wood.
  • Mic 7:6 : 6 For a son is dishonouring a father, A daughter hath stood against her mother, A daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, The enemies of each `are' the men of his house.
  • Matt 10:22 : 22 and ye shall be hated by all because of my name, but he who hath endured to the end, he shall be saved.
  • Matt 10:25 : 25 sufficient to the disciple that he may be as his teacher, and the servant as his lord; if the master of the house they did call Beelzeboul, how much more those of his household?
  • Matt 10:35-36 : 35 for I came to set a man at variance against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, 36 and the enemies of a man are those of his household.
  • Mark 4:6 : 6 and the sun having risen, it was scorched, and because of not having root it did wither;
  • Luke 12:51-53 : 51 `Think ye that peace I came to give in the earth? no, I say to you, but rather division; 52 for there shall be henceforth five in one house divided -- three against two, and two against three; 53 a father shall be divided against a son, and a son against a father, a mother against a daughter, and a daughter against a mother, a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.'
  • Acts 14:22 : 22 confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting to remain in the faith, and that through many tribulations it behoveth us to enter into the reign of God,
  • Gal 4:29 : 29 but as then he who was born according to the flesh did persecute him according to the spirit, so also now;
  • Ruth 1:19-21 : 19 and they go both of them till their coming in to Beth-Lehem; and it cometh to pass at their coming in to Beth-Lehem, that all the city is moved at them, and they say, `Is this Naomi?' 20 And she saith unto them, `Call me not Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly to me, 21 I went out full, and empty hath Jehovah brought me back, why do ye call me Naomi, and Jehovah hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath done evil to me?'
  • Job 30:30 : 30 My skin hath been black upon me, And my bone hath burned from heat,