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Gill's Exposition
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 Psa 11:6; or, "burning…
Barnes' Notes
Our skin ... - Or, is fiery red like an oven because of the fever-blast “of famine.”
Adam Clarke
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.
Is any afflicted? let him pray; and let him in prayer pour out his complaint to God, and make known before him his trouble. The people of God do so here; being overwhelmed with grief, they give vent…
Cambridge Bible
The feverishness and wasting brought on by hunger is meant.
black or as mg. hot.
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