Song of Songs 1:7

7 Tell me, you, the one I love: Where do you pasture your sheep? Where do you let them rest at noon? Why should I be like one who veils herself[a][b] beside the flocks of your companions?

Song of Songs 1:7 In-Context

5 Daughters of Jerusalem, I am dark like the tents of Kedar, yet lovely like the curtains of Solomon.
6 Do not stare at me because I am dark, for the sun has gazed on me. My mother's sons were angry with me; they made me a keeper of the vineyards. I have not kept my own vineyard.
7 Tell me, you, the one I love: Where do you pasture your sheep? Where do you let them rest at noon? Why should I be like one who veils herself beside the flocks of your companions?
8 If you do not know, most beautiful of women, follow the tracks of the flock, and pasture your young goats near the shepherds' tents.
9 I compare you, my darling, to a mare among Pharaoh's chariots.

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. Or who wanders
  • [b]. To express shame or grief, or to conceal identity as a prostitute would; Gn 38:14-15
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