1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| Lamentations 4:8 | Heth. Their face is now made blacker than coals, and they are not known in the streets: their skin hath stuck to their bones, it is withered, and is become like wood. | Coals. Hebrew, "blackness." Septuagint, "soot." (Haydock) --- The people were naturally brown. Fasting and distress cause them to turn black, Lamentations 5:10., and Joel 2:6. (Calmet) --- They were so changed, that old acquaintances knew not one another. (Worthington) |