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skin: Lamentations 3:4, Lamentations 4:8, Job 30:30, Psalms 119:83
terrible famine: or, terrors, or storms, of famine
Reciprocal: Genesis 43:1 - General Deuteronomy 28:16 - in the field Deuteronomy 32:24 - burnt Job 19:20 - and I am Psalms 32:4 - moisture Jeremiah 14:2 - they Jeremiah 37:21 - until Jeremiah 52:6 - the famine Ezekiel 17:14 - the kingdom Revelation 6:5 - had
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Our skin was black like an oven, because of the terrible famine. Or "terrors [and horrors of] famine"; which are very dreadful and distressing: or, "the storms of famine"; see Psalms 11:6; or, "burning winds" u; such as are frequent in Africa and Asia; to which the famine is compared that was in Jerusalem, at the siege of it, both by the Chaldeans and Romans; and as an oven, furnace, or chimney becomes black by the smoke of the fire burnt in it, or under it; so the skins of the Jews became black through these burning winds and storms, or burnings of famine; see Lamentations 4:8. So Jarchi says the word has the signification of "burning"; for famine as it were burns up the bodies of men when most vehement.
u זלעפות רעב "horrorum famis", Montanus; "terrores, [vel] tremores", Vatablus; "procellas famis", Junius Tremellius, Piscator "exustiones", Pagninus, Calvin; "adustiones famis", Stockius, p. 281.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Our skin ... - Or, is fiery red like an oven because of the fever-blast “of famine.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 10. Our skin was black - because of the terrible famine. — Because of the searching winds that burnt up every green thing, destroying vegetation, and in consequence producing a famine.
