Black — I confess, as to myself, I am contemptible and deformed. She alludes to the complexion of Pharaoh's daughter. Comely — Yet I am glorious within, and comely through the beauty which my husband hath put upon me, by his graces conferred upon me, in justification and sanctification. Daughters — By which she understands particular believers, whose mother, Jerusalem is called, Galatians 4:26. The tents — Of the wild Arabians, the posterity of Kedar, Genesis 25:13, who dwelt in tents, and were black and uncomely. The curtains — As the hangings wherewith Solomon's house was furnished, which none can doubt were most beautiful and glorious. So these two last clauses answer to the two first, and that in the same order in which they lie.
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Song of Solomon 1:5
5 I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.