Vineyard


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 keeper of the vineyards, but my own vineyard I have not kept! - Song of Solomon 1:6

Noah's Vineyard

After the flood, Noah became a man of the soil and planted a vineyard. Its wine caused the drunkenness that led to his curse to Canaan to become a servant's servant to his brothers and his blessing to Shem and to Japheth. (Genesis 8:18-28)

Song of Solomon

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 keeper of the vineyards, but my own vineyard I have not kept! (Song of Solomon 1:6)

Her beloved leaps over the mountains, stands behind the daughters' wall, gazes through the windows, speaks and says to her to arise and come away for the winter is past. "Catch the foxes for us, the little foxes that spoil the vineyards, for our vineyards are in blossom.” (Song of Solomon 2:8-15)

Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; he let out the vineyard to keepers; each one was to bring for its fruit a thousand pieces of silver. My vineyard, my very own, is before me; you, O Solomon, may have the thousand, and the keepers of the fruit two hundred. (Song of Solomon 8:11-12)

He says, "O you who dwell in the gardens, with companions listening for your voice; let me hear it."

She says, "Make haste, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices."

(Song of Solomon 8:13-14)

Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her. And there I will give her her vineyards and make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. And there she shall answer as in the days of her youth, as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt. (Hosea 2:14-15)