Song of Solomon 1:6
Look not upon me, because I am dark, 1 Because the sun has looked unfavorably upon me: 1 My mother’s sons strove with me; 1 They made me keeper in the vineyards; 1 I have not kept my own vineyard. 1
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Job 30:30And my skin has been greatly blackened, 1 And my bones are burned with heat. 1
Song of Solomon 8:11Solomon had a vineyard in Baal-hamon; 1 He let his vineyard to keepers; 1 Every one was to bring for its fruit a thousand pieces of silver. 1
Jeremiah 8:21For the breach of the daughter of my people I have been saddened: in my perplexity pangs have seized upon me as of a woman in travail.
Lamentations 4:8Their countenance is become blacker than smoke; 1 They are not known in the streets: 1 Their skin has cloven to their bones; 1 They are withered, they are become as a stick. 1
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 →