Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
(231) The word זלעפות, occurs in Psalms 11:6, and in the singular number in Psalms 119:53. The versions and the Targ. render it differently in the three places, for it is not found anywhere else. In Psalms 119:53, it is rendered “horror” in our version, and this meaning suits the passage in Psalms 11:6, and also this passage, — 