visage: Lam 5:10; Job 30:17-19, Job 30:30; Joe 2:6; Nah 2:10
blacker than a coal: Heb. darker than blackness. Or, as Dr. Blayney renders, "duskier than the dawn;" shachar signifying "the dawn of the day, when it is neither light nor dark, but between both, at which time objects are not easily distinguished."