The Targumist and other Jewish interpreters understand this section to foreshadow the condition of Israel in the wilderness. In a similar way, some…

As the tents of Kedar — that is, Dark as the Kedarite tents of black goats’ hair, beautiful as the royal pavilions with their rich…

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 the…

I [am] black, but comely, O you daughters of Jerusalem
The church having obtained of Christ, what she wanted, turns …

The church, or rather the believer, speaks here in the character of the spouse of the King, the Messiah. The kisses of his mouth mean those assuran…