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I’m dark but lovely,
    women of Jerusalem.
    I’m dark like the tents of Kedar,
    like the curtains of Solomon.
Don’t look at how dark I am,
    at how dark the sun has made me.
My brothers were angry with me.
    They made me tend the vineyards.
    So I haven’t tended my own vineyard!
Tell me, you whom I love,
    where do you feed your sheep?
    Where do you make them rest at noon?
Why should I look for you near your friend’s sheep?
    Am I like a woman who wears a veil?[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 1:7 veil This was the way a prostitute usually dressed.

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