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“I am dark but beautiful, O girls of Jerusalem, tanned as the dark tents of Kedar.”

King Solomon: “But lovely as the silken tents of Solomon!”

The Girl: “Don’t look down on me, you city girls,[a] just because my complexion is so dark—the sun has tanned me. My brothers were angry with me and sent me out into the sun to tend the vineyards, but see what it has done to me!”

The Girl: “Tell me, O one I love, where are you leading your flock today? Where will you be at noon? For I will come and join you there instead of wandering like a vagabond among the flocks of your companions.”

King Solomon:

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 1:6 you city girls, implied in v. 5. sent me out into the sun, implied. but see what it has done to me, literally, “but my own vineyards are neglected.”

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