John Gill's Exposition on Lamentations 5:10

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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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 <191106>Psalm 11:6 119:53); or, “burning winds” f140; 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 <250408>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.

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