Look not upon me, because I [am] (i) black, because the (k) sun hath looked upon me: (l) my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; [but] my own vineyard have I not (m) kept.
(i) Consider not the Church by the outward appearance.
(k) The corruption of nature through sin and afflictions.
(l) My own brethren who should have most favoured me.
(m) She confesses her own negligence.