Do not gaze at me because I am dark,
    because the sun has looked upon me.
My (A)mother's sons were angry with me;
    they made me (B)keeper of (C)the vineyards,
    but (D)my own vineyard I have not kept!

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11 Solomon had (A)a vineyard at Baal-hamon;
    he (B)let out the vineyard to (C)keepers;
    each one was to bring for its fruit (D)a thousand pieces of silver.
12 My vineyard, my very own, is before me;
    you, O Solomon, may have the thousand,
    and (E)the keepers of the fruit two hundred.

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