 I am black, but comely, 0 ye daughters of Jerusalem, As the tents of Kedar, As the curtains of Solomon. Look not upon me, because I am black, Because the sun hath looked upon me: My mother's children were angry with me; They made me the keeper of the...  Cyclopaedia of the Natural Sciences - Seite 103von William Baird - 1858 - 613 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Samuel Burder - 1812 - 428 Seiten
...by them as master-pieces of eloquence. HARMJER, vol. iv. p. 70. No. 1042.— SOLOMON'S SONG i. 5. 1 am black, but comely, 0 ye daughters of Jerusalem) as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon. MODERN tents are sometimes very beautiful. " The Turks spare for nothing... | |
 | 1832 - 440 Seiten
...appearance to the distant traveller. This beautifully illustrates the passage in Canticles, 1, v. — " I am black, but comely, 0 ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar" (a place in Arabia Petrea) " as the curtains of Solomon." At night the flocks and herds, gathered into... | |
 | 1927 - 1064 Seiten
...34—5. See the writer's Nevbabylonische Konigsinschriften, p. 13. Yale Oriental Series, vi, 134. " I am black, but comely, 0 ye daughters of Jerusalem, As the tents of Kedar, As the curtains of Solomon." The Hebrew word rendered " Solomon " is rib'JE' and is pointed in our... | |
 | 1842 - 508 Seiten
...Solomon's song, alludes to her complexion, as being darker than that of the ladies of Palestine : " I am black, but comely, 0 ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon. Look not upon me because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me."... | |
 | 1843 - 722 Seiten
...upon me." Wherever the sun looks upon thee, thou wilt lose thy blackness, and say with the church, " I am black, but comely, 0 ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedár, as the curtains of Solomon :" though not lose a sense of thy blackness. I once heard a good... | |
 | 1843 - 1108 Seiten
...glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine : the- upright love thee. 5 I urn a ; < = H ) * + as the curtains of Solomon. 6 Look not upon mo because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon... | |
 | Mary Fawler Maude - 1845 - 494 Seiten
...15. " The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the' tabernacles of the righteous." CANT. i. 5. " I am black but comely, 0 ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon." ISAIAH xxxiii. 20. " Thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation,... | |
 | Austen Henry Layard - 1851 - 818 Seiten
...capitals • These tents were probably made of black goat-hair, like those of the modern Arabs — " I am black, but comely, 0 ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar" (Cant. i. 5) — and were not the gay white pavilions which are usually seen in modem Biblical illustrations.... | |
 | 1851 - 514 Seiten
...will be glad and rejoice in thee; we will remember thy love more than wine ; the upright love thee. I am black, but comely, 0 ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon. Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun has looked upon me,... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1852 - 666 Seiten
...black." In the poem called Solomon's Song, the female whose praises are therein celebrated, says, " I am black, but comely, 0 ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon. Look not upon me because I am black; because the sun hath looked upon me... | |
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