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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
R. A. Torrey and contributors · Cross-reference reference work
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visage: Lam 5:10; Job 30:17-19, Job 30:30; Joe 2:6; Nah 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: Lam 4:1, Lam 4:2; Rut 1:19, Rut 1:20; Job 2:12; Isa 52:14 their skin: Job 19:20, Job 33:21; Psa 32:4, Psa 38:3, Psa 102:3-5, Psa 102:11, Psa 119:83 Lamentations 4:9
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