Song of Solomon 1:6

Song of Solomon 1:6

4 ^aDraw me away!
^bWe will run after¹ you.
The king ^chas brought me into his chambers.
We will be glad and rejoice in¹ you.
We will remember your love more than wine.
Rightly do they love you.

The Daughters of Jerusalem The Shulamite The Daughters of Jerusalem The Shulamite

5 I am dark, but lovely,
O daughters of Jerusalem,
Like the tents of Kedar,
Like the curtains of Solomon.

6 Do not look upon me, because I am dark,
Because the sun has¹ tanned me.
My mother’s sons were angry with me;
They made me the keeper of the vineyards,
But my own ^avineyard I have not kept.

(To Her Beloved)

7 Tell me, O you whom I love,
Where you feed your flock,
Where you make it rest at noon.
For why should I be as one who¹ veils herself
By the flocks of your companions?

The Beloved

8 If you do not know, ^aO fairest among women,
¹Follow in the footsteps of the flock,
And feed your little goats
Beside the shepherds’ tents.

9 I have compared you, ^amy love,
^bTo my filly among Pharaoh’s chariots.

10 ^aYour cheeks are lovely with ornaments,
Your neck with chains of gold.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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She feels as if her blackness was so great as to be gazed at by all.

mother's children— (Matthew 10:36). She is to forget "her own people and her father's house," that is, the worldly connections of her unregenerate state (Psalms 45:10); they had maltreated her (Luke 15:15-16). Children of the same mother, but not the same father [MAURER], (John 8:41-44). They made her a common keeper of vineyards, whereby the sun looked upon, that is, burnt her; thus she did "not keep her own" vineyard, that is, fair beauty. So the world, and the soul (Matthew 16:26; Luke 9:25). The believer has to watch against the same danger (I Corinthians 9:27). So he will be able, instead of the self-reproach here, to say as in Song of Solomon 8:12.

**Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Song of Solomon 1:6:**

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Ezekiel 16:8
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