Thematic Bible: Blackness of the skin
Thematic Bible
Famine » Caused » Blackness of the skin
Their appearance is [now] blacker than soot [because of the prolonged famine];
They are not recognized in the streets;
Their skin clings to their bones;
It is withered, and it has become [dry] like wood.
Our skin is as hot as [the heat of] an oven
Because of the burning heat of [the fever of] famine.