Our skin ... - Or, is fiery red like an oven because of the fever-blast “of famine.”

Our skin was black ... — Better, fiery red, and for “terrible famine,” the fever-blast of famine. The words paint the ho…

Some read, “for tremors”—literally, “from the face of tremors.” Jerome translates it as “tempests,” but the word “burnings” is the most suitable, b…

Our skin was black like an oven, because of the terrible
famine .
Or "terrors [and hor…

Is anyone afflicted? Let him pray; and let him in prayer pour out his complaint to God. The people of God do so here; they do not complain of evils…