And the men that died not were smitten with the emerods: and the cry of the city went up to heaven.
The cry of the city went up to heaven. The disease is attended with acute pain, and it is far from being a rare phenomenon in the Philistian plain, though on the occasion referred to in the text it appeared in a malignant form, and prevailed to an alarming extent (Van de Velde, vol. 2:, p. 174).