Song of Songs 1:5-7 (Passage & Poetry)

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 5I am very dark, but lovely,


O daughters of Jerusalem,
like the tents of Kedar,


like the curtains of Solomon.


6Do not gaze at me because I am dark,
   

because the sun has looked upon me.
My mother’s sons were angry with me;
   

they made me keeper of the vineyards,
   

but my own vineyard I have not kept!


7Tell me, you whom my soul loves,
  

 where you pasture your flock,
   

where you make it lie down at noon;
for why should I be like one who veils herself
   

beside the flocks of your companions? 

To the one whom God has made for me

I am brown from the sun, the place I was born

Work has callused my hands, too strong to be dainty

I am not beautiful by any standard

Face to round, too sweet

Eyes direct without guile

Yet all that I am worth is in Christ

My hair is dark

Teeth straight and a tiny chip missing from my front tooth

I laugh to hard 

Sing to much 

Yet God has granted me favor

Beloved, the one whom God made for me

I was told never to give up, to wait patiently

They were right, what was said holds true

I am my beloved's and he is mine

Though I don't see I know he is there

For that day I will wait when your banner over me is love

Where I won't be seen as the strong one

As the one who could outsmart any man

I will wear white, my head bare 

unadorned but with love in my countenance

I will see you and you will see me

And even though I am not you will see beauty in me

Given by God

You will be wretched but so will I 

It will be ordain by God

God placed first 

and with true love, love each other

That it what I wait for