They shall look unto the earth; finding no help from heaven, they turn their eyes downward, looking hither and thither for comfort. Trouble and darkness. &c.; many words expressing the same thing are put together, to signify the variety, and extremity, and continuance of their miseries.
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Isaiah 8:22
22 And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.