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" I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon. "
Southey's Common-place Book - Page 443
by Robert Southey - 1850 - 596 pages
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Divine Poems and Essays, on Various Subjects: In Two Parts

Maria De Fleury - 1804 - 302 pages
...thy quickening Spirit continually breathe the life of God into my heart, and I shall live to thee. " I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon." What is man, that he should be clean ? and he that is...
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The works of ... William Huntington ... to the close of the year MDCCCVI.

William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 424 pages
...of the saints, called white lined, clean and white. And the spouse, when adorned with this, says, " I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem ; as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon." This is the covering robe of the whole church; and blessed...
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Ezra to Malachi

Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 614 pages
...will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine : the upright love thee. 5 I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon. 6 Look not upon me, because 1 am black, because the sun...
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The Republican, Volume 3

Richard Carlile - Free thought - 1820 - 660 pages
...was not amongst the queens, we may gather froni the description she is made to give of herself: — "I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the" tents of Kedar,' as the curtains of Solomon. Look not upon me, because I am btarfc, because the sun...
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The cottage Bible and family expositor; the authorized tr., with ..., Volume 2

Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher) - 1825 - 1068 pages
...will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee. 5 p sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head ; tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon. 6 Look not upon we because I am black, because the sun...
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Travels Among the Arab Tribes Inhabiting the Countries East of Syria and ...

James Silk Buckingham - Eretz Israel - 1825 - 728 pages
...they were Arabs burnt by the sun ; but that it refers to the tents is evident from Canticles, i. 5., " I am black but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem : as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon."' See the Song of Maisuna, wife of Moawiah, in Abulfeda,...
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Illustrations of the holy Scriptures, Volume 2

George Paxton - 1825 - 578 pages
...appearance. To this agreeable custom, the spouse probably alludes, in that description of her person : " I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem ; as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.1 The seeming contradiction in the first clause, is easily...
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The Congregational magazine [formerly The London Christian ..., Volume 1

874 pages
...the nations ; and all the righteous who do what is right before thee, love thy precepts." Ver. 5. " I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon." When the house of Israel made the calf, their faces became...
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The Old Testament: Arranged in Historical & Chronological Order, (on the ...

George Townsend - 1826 - 1056 pages
...thee, we will remember thy love more than wine : t the tlue uprightly. . . . , * upright love thee. 5 I am 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 am black, because the sun...
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The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Translated Out of the ...

1828 - 1042 pages
...be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine : the upright love thee. 5 if d I will establish my covenant with you ; neither shall all tents of Kedar, as the cui tains of Solomon. 6 Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun...
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