Song of Solomon 1:6

Song of Solomon chapter 1 · verse 6 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Look not upon me, because I am swarthy, Because the sun hath scorched me. My mother’s sons were incensed against me; They made me keeper of the vineyards; But mine own vineyard have I not kept.

KJV

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Look not upon me, because I am swarthy, Because the sun hath scorched me. My mother’s sons were incensed against me; They made me keeper of the vineyards; But mine own vineyard have I not kept.

Context

v.5I am black, but comely, Oh ye daughters of Jerusalem, As the tents of Kedar, As the curtains of Solomon.

v.6This passage

v.7Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, Where thou feedest thy flock, Where thou makest it to rest at noon: For why should I be as one that is veiled Beside the flocks of thy companions?

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Jeremiah 8:21

    For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt: I mourn; dismay hath taken hold on me.

  • Psalms 69:8

    I am become a stranger unto my brethren, And an alien unto my mother’s children.

  • Song of Solomon 8:11

    Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; He let out the vineyard unto keepers; Every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.

  • Luke 12:51

    Think ye that I am come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division:

  • Matthew 10:35

    For I came 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:

  • Matthew 10:22

    And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end, the same shall be saved.