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

Look not ...—that is, with disdain, as in Job 41:34 (verse 26 in the Hebrew text).

Black.— Litera…

His left hand is under my head, and his right hand does embrace me.

I charge you, O you daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, an…

Look not upon me
Meaning not with scorn and disdain because of her meanne ; nor as prying into her infirmities to ex…

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…