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Their appearance is blacker than a coal. They are not known in the streets. Their skin clings to their bones. It is withered. It has become like wood.
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Verse 8. Coals. Hebrew “blackness.” Septuagint “soot.” Bible.—The people were naturally brown. Fasting and distress cause them to turn black. Calmet. 5:10. Joel 2:6. Calmet.—They were so changed, that old acquaintances knew not one another. Worthington.
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