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.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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. …
Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division: …
I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.
My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
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…
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