Song of Solomon 1:5 - Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ Do 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ I am so black; but [you are] lovely and pleasant [the ladies assured her]. O you daughters of Jerusalem, [I am as dark] as the tents of [the Bedouin tribe] Kedar, like the [beautiful] curtains of Solomon!

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

⁵ Dark am I, and lovely, daughters of Jerusalem— like the black tents of the Kedar nomads, like the curtains of Solomon’s palace.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ Bride to Chorus: The king has led me into his storerooms.

English Standard Version 2016

⁵ I am very dark, but lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.

Song of Solomon 1:5 Cross References

Psalm 120:5

The Lord is thy keeper, the Lord is thy protection upon thy right hand.

Psalm 149:4

For the Lord is well pleased with his people: and he will exalt the meek unto salvation.

Psalm 45:9

Come and behold ye the works of the Lord: what wonders he hath done upon earth,

Song of Solomon 2:14

My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hollow places of the wall, shew me thy face, let thy voice sound in my ears: for thy voice is sweet, and thy face comely.

Song of Solomon 2:7

I adjure you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and the harts of the, fields, that you stir not up, nor make the beloved to awake, till she please.

Song of Solomon 3:10

The pillars thereof he made of silver, the seat of gold, the going up of purple: the midst he covered with charity for the daughters of Jerusalem.

Song of Solomon 3:5

I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes and the harts of the fields, that you stir not up, nor awake my beloved, till she please.

Song of Solomon 4:3

Thy lips are as a scarlet lace: and thy speech sweet. Thy cheeks are as a piece of a pomegranate, besides that which lieth hid within.

Song of Solomon 5:16

His throat most sweet, and he is all lovely: such is my beloved, and he is my friend, O ye daughters of Jerusalem.

Song of Solomon 5:8

I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him that I languish with love.

Song of Solomon 6:4

Turn away thy eyes from me, for they have made me flee away. Thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from Galaad.

Song of Solomon 8:4

I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you stir not up, nor awake my love till she please.

Isaiah 21:16

For thus saith the Lord to me: Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, all the glory of Cedar shall be taken away.

Isaiah 53:2

And he shall grow up as a tender plant before him, and as a root out of a thirsty ground. There is no beauty in him, nor comeliness: and we have seen him, and there was no sightliness, that we should be desirous of him:

Isaiah 60:7

All the flocks of Cedar shall be gathered together unto thee: the rams of Nabaioth shall minister to thee. They shall be offered upon my acceptable altar: and I will glorify the house of my majesty.

Isaiah 61:10

I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, and my soul shall be joyful in my God. For he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation and with the robe of justice he hath covered me: as a bridegroom decked with a crown and as a bride adorned with her jewels.

Ezekiel 16:14

And thy renown went forth among the nations for thy beauty: for thou wast perfect through my beauty which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord God.

Ezekiel 27:21

Arabia, and all the princes of Cedar, they were the merchants of thy hand: thy merchants came to thee with lambs and rams and kids.

Matthew 10:25

It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the goodman of the house Beelzebub, how much more them of his household?

Matthew 22:11

And the king went in to see the guests: and he saw there a man who had not on a wedding garment.

Luke 13:34

Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent to thee, how often would I have gathered thy children as the bird doth her brood under her wings, and thou wouldest not?

Luke 15:22

And the father said to his servants: Bring forth quickly the first robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:

Romans 13:14

But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh in its concupiscences.

2 Corinthians 5:21

Him, who knew no sin, he hath made sin for us, that we might be made the justice of God in him.

Galatians 4:26

But that Jerusalem, which is above, is free: which is our mother.

Ephesians 5:26

That he might sanctify it, cleansing it by the laver of water in the word of life:

1 John 3:1

Behold what manner of charity the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called, and should be the sons of God. Therefore the world knoweth not us, because it knew not him.