Their appearance is now blacker than coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaves to their bones; it is withered, it has become like a dry stick.

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

Coals. Hebrew, "blackness. "Septuagint, "soot. "(Haydock) The people were naturally brown. Fasting and distress cause them to turn black, chap. v. 10., and Joel ii. 6. (Calmet) They were so changed, that old acquaintances knew not one another. (Worthington)

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