Deu 28:53, Jer 14:18, Lam 4:4-9, 5:10 | TSK | STEP

their polishing.{Gizrathom,} rendered by Dr. Blayney, "their veining," from {gazar,} to divide, intersect, as the blue veins do the surface of the body. This is approved by Dr. A. Clarke, who remarks, "Milk will most certainly well apply to the whiteness of the skin; the beautiful ruby to the ruddiness of the flesh; and the sapphire, in its clear, transcendent purple, to the veins in a fine complexion."

visage.

5:10; Job 30:17-19,30; Joe 2:6; Na 2:10

blacker than a coal. Heb. darker than blackness.Or, as Dr. Blayney renders, "duskier than the dawn;" {shachar} signifying "the dawn of the day, when it is neither light nor dark, but between both, at which time objects are not easily distinguished."

they.

1,2; Ru 1:19,20; Job 2:12; Isa 52:14

their skin.

Job 19:20; 33:21; Ps 32:4; 38:3; 102:3-5,11; 119:83

for.

Le 26:39; Eze 24:23; 33:10

pine away. Heb. flow out.

Lamentations 5:10

skin.

3:4; 4:8; Job 30:30; Ps 119:83

terrible famine. or, terrors, or storms, of famine.