Lecture 8

^4:8^ Heth. Their face is now made blacker than coals, and they are not known in the streets: their skin has stuck to their bones, it is withered and has become like wood.

74. Here he presents the disfigurement following upon their hunger. As regards their change of color, their face is now made blacker than coals, and they are not known, on account of their disfigurement; and as regards the drying out of their fatness, their skin has stuck to their bones. The faces of them all are as the blackness of a kettle. Where is now the dwelling of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions (Nah 2:10–11). My skin is withered and drawn together (Job 7:5).