6  Do 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 ^gkeeper of the vineyards,

but ^hmy own vineyard I have not kept!

7  Tell me, you ⁱwhom 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 ^jcompanions?