Post by Lee on Jul 24, 2014 19:16:22 GMT
Jer 14:2 Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
Jer 14:3 And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty;
The horse of the third seal is black. This color is indicative of famine, or the injuring of the wheat and barley to such an extent as to cause great scarcity, and consequent starvation, with all its hideous accompaniments. When the word of Jehovah spoke to Jeremiah of the grievous famine, he describes the gates of Judah as “black unto the ground.” It represents destitution of water in the wells, the absence of rain, and total want of grass.—Jer. 14:1–6. The connection of black with this calamity is also established by the words of Judah’s lamentation, saying, “We got our bread with the peril of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness. Our skin was black like an oven, because of the terrible famine.”—Lam. 5:9, 10.
Thomas, J. (1997). Eureka: An exposition of the Apocalypse
Jer 14:3 And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty;
The horse of the third seal is black. This color is indicative of famine, or the injuring of the wheat and barley to such an extent as to cause great scarcity, and consequent starvation, with all its hideous accompaniments. When the word of Jehovah spoke to Jeremiah of the grievous famine, he describes the gates of Judah as “black unto the ground.” It represents destitution of water in the wells, the absence of rain, and total want of grass.—Jer. 14:1–6. The connection of black with this calamity is also established by the words of Judah’s lamentation, saying, “We got our bread with the peril of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness. Our skin was black like an oven, because of the terrible famine.”—Lam. 5:9, 10.
Thomas, J. (1997). Eureka: An exposition of the Apocalypse