Deuteronomy 32:24 [They shall be] burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.
Ver. 24. Burnt with hunger.] Which makes men's visages blacker than a coal. Lam 4:8
With burning heat,] i.e., With the burning carbuncle, or plague sore. See Habakkuk 3:5 .