My skin is black, and falleth from me, And my bones are burned with heat.
Song of Solomon 1:6 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 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. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition [Please] do not look at me, [she said, for] I am swarthy. [I have worked out] in the sun and it has left its mark upon me. My stepbrothers were angry with me, and they made me keeper of the vineyards; but my own vineyard [my complexion] I have not kept. 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. Common English Bible Don’t stare at me because I’m darkened by the sun’s gaze. My own brothers were angry with me. They made me a caretaker of the vineyards— but I couldn’t care for my own vineyard. Catholic Public Domain Version Chorus to Bride: We will exult and rejoice in you, remembering your breasts above wine. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version 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. |
My skin is black, and falleth from me, And my bones are burned with heat.
I am become a stranger unto my brethren, And an alien unto my mother's children.
For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee; even they have cried aloud after thee: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto thee.
For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt: I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house.
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.
It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household!
and when the sun was risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.
confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God.
But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.