Song of Solomon 1:6
Look not upon me, because I am black; Because the sun hath looked upon me. My mother's children were angry with me: They made me keeper of the vineyards; Mine own vineyard have I not kept.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
5I am black, but comely, daughters of Jerusalem, As the tents of Kedar, As the curtains of Solomon.
Cross References
Job 30:30My skin is become black [and falleth] off me, and my bones are parched with heat.
Song of Solomon 8:11Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon: He let out the vineyard unto keepers; Every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand silver-pieces.
Jeremiah 8:21For the breach of the daughter of my people am I crushed; I go mourning; astonishment hath taken hold of me.
Lamentations 4:8Their visage is darker than blackness, they are not known in the streets; their skin cleaveth to their bones, it is withered, it is become like a stick.
Matthew 10:22and ye shall be hated of all on account of my name. But he that has endured to [the] end, *he* shall be saved.
Matthew 10:35For I have come to set a man at variance with his father, and the daughter with her mother, and the daughter-in-law with her mother-in-law;
Matthew Henry on Song of Solomon 1:3-7
The Love of the Church to Christ. 2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine. 3 Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee. 4 Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee. 5 I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of… Read the whole commentary →