Song of Solomon 1:5
World English Bible (WEB)
I am dark, but lovely, you daughters of Jerusalem, like Kedar’s tents, like Solomon’s curtains.
In context
3 Your oils have a pleasing fragrance. Your name is oil poured out, therefore the virgins love you.
4 Take me away with you. Let’s hurry. The king has brought me into his rooms. We will be glad and rejoice in you. We will praise your love more than wine! They are right to love you.
5 I am dark, but lovely, you daughters of Jerusalem, like Kedar’s tents, like Solomon’s curtains.
6 Don’t stare at me because I am dark, because the sun has scorched me. My mother’s sons were angry with me. They made me keeper of the vineyards. I haven’t kept my own vineyard.
7 Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you graze your flock, where you rest them at noon; for why should I be as one who is veiled beside the flocks of your companions?
Song of Solomon 1:5 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- I am dark, but lovely, you daughters of Jerusalem, like Kedar’s tents, like Solomon’s curtains.
- KJV King James Version
- I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- I am dark, yet lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.
- ASV American Standard Version
- I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, As the tents of Kedar, As the curtains of Solomon.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- Dark [am] I, and comely, daughters of Jerusalem, As tents of Kedar, as curtains of Solomon.
- DBY Darby Translation
- I am black, but comely, daughters of Jerusalem, As the tents of Kedar, As the curtains of Solomon.
- WBS Webster Bible
- I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.