Songs 1:6
Good News Translation
Don't look down on me because of my color, because the sun has tanned me. My brothers were angry with me and made me work in the vineyard. I had no time to care for myself.

New Revised Standard Version
Do not gaze at me because I am dark, because the sun has gazed on me. My mother’s sons were angry with me; they made me keeper of the vineyards, but my own vineyard I have not kept!

Contemporary English Version
Don't stare at me just because the sun has darkened my skin. My brothers were angry with me; they made me work in the vineyard, and so I neglected my complexion.

New American Bible
Do not stare at me because I am so black, because the sun has burned me. The sons of my mother were angry with me; they charged me with the care of the vineyards: my own vineyard I did not take care of.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Shew me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou liest in the midday, lest I begin to wander after the flocks of thy companions.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Shew me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou liest in the midday, lest I begin to wander after the flocks of thy companions.

look

Ruth 1:19-21 So they went together, and came to Bethlehem. And when they were come into the city, the report was quickly spread among all: and the women said: This is that Noemi. . . .

because

Job 30:30 My skin is become black upon me, and my bones are dried up with heat.

Jeremiah 8:21 For the affliction of the daughter of my people I am afflicted, and made sorrowful, astonishment hath taken hold on me.

Lamentations 4:8 Heth. Their face is now made blacker than coals, and they are not known in the streets: their skin hath stuck to their bones, it is withered, and is become like wood.

Mark 4:6 And when the sun was risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

Acts 14:22 Confirming the souls of the disciples and exhorting them to continue in the faith: and that through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God.

my mother's

Psalm 69:8 I am become a stranger to my brethren, and an alien to the sons of my mother.

Jeremiah 12:6 For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have fought against thee, and have cried after thee with full voice: believe them not when they speak good things to thee.

Micah 7:6 For the son dishonoureth the father, and the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law: and a man's enemies are they of his own household.

Matthew 10:22,25,35,36 And you shall be hated by all men for my name's sake: but he that shall persevere unto the end, he shall be saved. . . .

Luke 12:51-53 Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation. . . .

Galatians 4:29 But as then he that was born according to the flesh persecuted him that was after the spirit: so also it is now.

keeper

Songs 8:11,12 The peaceable had a vineyard, in that which hath people: he let out the same to keepers, every man bringeth for the fruit thereof a thousand pieces of silver. . . .

Context
The Bride Confesses Her Love
5Do not consider me that I am brown, because the sun hath altered my colour: the sons of my mother have fought against me, they have made me the keeper in the vineyards: my vineyard I have not kept. 6Shew me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou liest in the midday, lest I begin to wander after the flocks of thy companions.7If thou know not thyself, O fairest among women, go forth, and follow after the steps of the flocks, and feed thy kids beside the tents of the shepherds.…
Cross References
Psalm 69:8
I am become a stranger to my brethren, and an alien to the sons of my mother.

Songs 8:11
The peaceable had a vineyard, in that which hath people: he let out the same to keepers, every man bringeth for the fruit thereof a thousand pieces of silver.

Songs 1:5
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