Song of Solomon 1:6
Look not upon me, because I black, because the sun has looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; mine own vineyard have I not kept.
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Context
4 Draw me, we will run after you: the king has brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in you, we will remember your love more than wine: the upright love you.
5 I black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
6 Look not upon me, because I black, because the sun has looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; mine own vineyard have I not kept.
7 Tell me, O you whom my soul loveth, where you feedest, where you makest to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of your companions?
8 If you know not, O you fairest among women, go your way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed your kids beside the shepherds' tents.