8Their 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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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth. …
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.
My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-12)The elegy in this chapter begins with a lamentation of the very sad and doleful change which the judgments of God had made in Jerusalem. The city that was formerly as gold , as the most fine gold , so rich and splendid, the perfection of beauty and the joy of the whole earth , has become dim, and is changed, has lost its lustre, lost its value, is not what it was; it has become dross. Alas! what a…
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