Matthew Poole and continuators on Lamentations 4:8

8 Their visage is blacker then a coal : they are not known in the streets : their skin cleaveth to their bones: it is withered, it is become like a stick .

They that in the prosperity of the City were fair, plump, and ruddy, look now black for want of fit nourishment, and through sorrow, and grief.

Insomuch that those who before knew them by their countenances, garbs, and habits did not now know them.

And by reason of the Famine, (for he speaketh with relation to the Famine during the siege) they are almost starved, their skin is withered, and hard, and even sticketh to their bones.

Marginal references: Heb. dar[illegible: 1 letter]e[illegible: 1 letter] then blackness.