Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
She feels as if her blackness was so great as to be gazed at by all.
mother's children-- (Matthew 10:36). She is to forget "her own people and her father's house," that is, the worldly connections of her unregenerate state (Psalms 45:10); they had maltreated her (Luke 15:15-16). Children of the same mother, but not the same father [MAURER], (John 8:41-44). They made her a common keeper of vineyards, whereby the sun looked upon, that is, burnt her; thus she did "not keep her own" vineyard, that is, fair beauty. So the world, and the soul (Matthew 16:26; Luke 9:25). The believer has to watch against the same danger (1 Corinthians 9:27). So he will be able, instead of the self-reproach here, to say as in Song of Solomon 8:12.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Song of Solomon 2:14
Song of Solomon 2:15
Song of Solomon 3:4
Song of Solomon 8:12
Song of Solomon 8:13
Isaiah 3:24
Ezekiel 16:8
1 Corinthians 9:7
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