Dark am I, yet lovely, daughters of Jerusalem, dark like the tents of Kedar, like the tent curtains of Solomon.

耶路撒冷的众女子啊，我虽然黑，却是秀美，如同基达的帐棚，好像所罗门的幔子。

耶路撒冷的女子啊，我虽然黑，却是秀美，如同基达的帐棚，好像所罗门的幔子，

耶路撒冷的女子啊，我虽然黑，却是秀美，如同基达的帐棚，好像所罗门的幔子，

耶路撒冷的少女啊！我虽然黑似基达的帐篷，却美如所罗门的锦帐。

耶路撒冷的众女子啊！我虽然黑，却是秀美，如同基达的帐棚，好像所罗门的幔幕。

耶路撒冷的眾女子啊，我雖然黑，卻是秀美，如同基達的帳棚，好像所羅門的幔子。

耶路撒冷的女子啊，我雖然黑，卻是秀美，如同基達的帳棚，好像所羅門的幔子，

耶路撒冷的女子啊，我雖然黑，卻是秀美，如同基達的帳棚，好像所羅門的幔子，

耶路撒冷的少女啊！我雖然黑似基達的帳篷，卻美如所羅門的錦帳。

耶路撒冷的眾女子啊！我雖然黑，卻是秀美，如同基達的帳棚，好像所羅門的幔幕。

耶路撒冷的女子啊，我雖黝黑，卻很秀美，如同基達的帳棚，如同所羅門的幔子。

書拉密女曰耶路撒冷諸女歟、我顏雖黑、猶為佳麗、即黑如基達之幕、美如所羅門之幬、

謂其婢曰、耶路撒冷女乎、我顏微紫、若基達之幕、我容微美、若所羅門之幬。

耶路撒冷眾女乎、我顏雖黑、容仍秀美、雖如基達之幕、仍似所羅門之幔、

“ Women of Jerusalem, my skin is dark but lovely. It is dark like the tents in Kedar. It’s like the curtains of Solomon’s tent.

I am very dark, but lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.

I am dark but beautiful, O women of Jerusalem— dark as the tents of Kedar, dark as the curtains of Solomon’s tents.

Daughters of Jerusalem, I am dark like the tents of Kedar, yet lovely like the curtains of Solomon.

“ I am black and beautiful, You daughters of Jerusalem, Like the tents of Kedar, Like the curtains of Solomon.

I am dark, but lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, Like the tents of Kedar, Like the curtains of Solomon.

I am black, but comely, Oh ye daughters of Jerusalem, As the tents of Kedar, As the curtains of Solomon.

Daughters of Jerusalem, I am dark like the tents of Kedar, yet lovely like the curtains of Solomon.

I[ am] black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.

I am dark but lovely, O maidens of Jerusalem, dark like the tents of Qedar, lovely like the tent curtains of Salmah.

I am dark, but lovely, you daughters of Jerusalem, like Kedar’s tents, like Solomon’s curtains.

Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you— if you find my beloved, what will you tell him? Tell him I am faint with love.

Woe to me that I dwell in Meshek, that I live among the tents of Kedar!

Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you by the gazelles and by the does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires.

His mouth is sweetness itself; he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, this is my friend, daughters of Jerusalem.

My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hiding places on the mountainside, show me your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely.

Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon; your mouth is lovely. Your temples behind your veil are like the halves of a pomegranate.

“ But the father said to his servants,‘ Quick! Bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet.

“ But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes.

It is enough for students to be like their teachers, and servants like their masters. If the head of the house has been called Beelzebul, how much more the members of his household!

“ Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing.

I delight greatly in the Lord; my soul rejoices in my God. For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of his righteousness, as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

We are fools for Christ, but you are so wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are honored, we are dishonored!To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are in rags, we are brutally treated, we are homeless.We work hard with our own hands. When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it;when we are slandered, we answer kindly. We have become the scum of the earth, the garbage of the world— right up to this moment.

Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the flesh.

And your fame spread among the nations on account of your beauty, because the splendor I had given you made your beauty perfect, declares the Sovereign Lord.

But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother.

All Kedar’s flocks will be gathered to you, the rams of Nebaioth will serve you; they will be accepted as offerings on my altar, and I will adorn my glorious temple.

He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.

Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you: Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires.

You are as beautiful as Tirzah, my darling, as lovely as Jerusalem, as majestic as troops with banners.

to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,

May the favor of the Lord our God rest on us; establish the work of our hands for us— yes, establish the work of our hands.

Daughters of kings are among your honored women; at your right hand is the royal bride in gold of Ophir.

Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you by the gazelles and by the does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires.

Its posts he made of silver, its base of gold. Its seat was upholstered with purple, its interior inlaid with love. Daughters of Jerusalem,

For the Lord takes delight in his people; he crowns the humble with victory.