Song of Solomon 1:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶Look 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 the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.

Song of Solomon 1:6 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Song of Solomon 8:11-12
Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver. …
Luke 12:51-53
Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division: …
Psalms 69:8
I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.
Job 30:30
My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
Mark 4:6
But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 2-6)

The spouse, in this dramatic poem, is here first introduced addressing herself to the bridegroom and then to the daughters of Jerusalem. I. To the bridegroom, not giving him any name or title, but beginning abruptly: Let him kiss me; like Mary Magdalen to the supposed gardener (John 20:15), If thou have borne him hence, meaning Christ, but not naming him. The heart has been before taken up with th…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 6)

6. She feels as if her blackness was so great as to be gazed at by all. mother’s children--(Mt 10:36). She is to forget “her own people and her father’s house,” that is, the worldly connections of her unregenerate state (Psa 45:10); they had maltreated her (Lu 15:15, 16). Children of the same mother, but not the same father [Maurer], (Joh 8:41-44). They made her a common keeper of vineyards, where…