Lamentations 4:8-9

4:8

appearance <08389> [visage.]

darker ... soot <07815 02821> [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."

recognized <05234> [they.]

skin <05785> [their skin.]

4:9

those .......... food <01992 08570> [for.]

waste away <02100> [pine away. Heb. flow out.]