Their visage is blacker... — We look, as it were, on the two pictures: the bloom and beauty of health, the wan, worn, spectral looks of starvation.
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Lamentations 4:8
8 Their visage is blackerb than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.