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I am dark, but lovely, You daughters of Jerusalem, Like Kedar`s tents, Like Solomon`s curtains.
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Rugged and Royal
Commentators explain that the woman is dark-skinned and weathered, like the black goat-hair "tents of Kedar," yet simultaneously beautiful and refined, like the luxurious "curtains of Solomon." This striking contrast introduces a key theme of possessing two seemingly opposite qualities at once.
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Song Of Solomon
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The Targumist and other Jewish interpreters understand this section to foreshadow the condition of Israel in the wilderness. In a similar way, some…
19th Century
Anglican
As the tents of Kedar — that is, Dark as the Kedarite tents of black goats’ hair, beautiful as the royal pavilions with their rich…
Baptist
I am black, but comely, O you daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
A strange contrast is a be…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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…
