Song of Solomon 1:6

Song of Solomon 1:6

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

The church, here continues her discourse to the daughters of Jerusalem: And,

I. Desires of them, not to look upon her.

II. Gives a reason why she would not have them do so, because I am black; of which blackness she assigns several causes; some of which are mot, near, others more remote.

1st, "Because the sun had looked upon her."

2dly, "Her mother's children were angry with her."

3dly, "They had made her the keeper of the vineyards."

4thly, This occasioned a neglect of her own; mine own vineyard have I not kept; all which produced this blackness in her; for it was not her true and native color.

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