Lamentations 4:8
“Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.”
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Gill's ExpositionBaptist theologian, 1697–1771
Their visage is blacker than a coal,.... Or, "darker than blackness"; or, "dark through blackness" (y); by reason of the…
Barnes' NotesPresbyterian pastor, 1798–1870
Their visage ... - Their form (their whole person, see 1Sa 28:14)... as in the margin. See Job 30:30. It is withered, it…
Matthew HenryNonconformist minister, 1662–1714Lamentations 4:1-12
The elegy in this chapter begins with a lamentation of the very sad and doleful change which the judgments of God had…
Cambridge BibleAcademic commentary, 1882–1921
blacker than a coal lit. as mg. darker than blackness.
Their skin cleaveth to their bones Cp. Job 19:20.
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