Song of Solomon 1:5

5. Daughters of Jerusalem The “daughters of Jerusalem” are, like the Greek chorus, a group of bystanders in close sympathy with the representation, whose part in it serves to explain and aid the general action.

Tents of Kedar An Arab tribe, that, like the modern gipsies, often intruded itself among the villages of Palestine, was a familiar sight. As the curtains, etc. The hangings of the pavilions, etc. The contrast would not be between a tent and a palace, but between the coarse hair-cloth tents of Kedar and the summer pavilions of the king, which, as Eastern rulers still do, he might pitch in some attractive spot for change of air and for recreation. In such a pavilion this song opens.

Comely That is, graceful.