the gates thereof] Her cities. as Exodus 20:10. Deuteronomy 16:5. Chap. 15. 7. Lamentations 1:4. Or, her inhabitants; because the gates were the usuall places of assembly. Ruth 4. 1, 2. 2 King. 7. 1, 20. Psalms 127:5. are black unto the ground] Being in black, as mourners. Psalms 38:6. &Psalms 42:9. Malachi 3:14. Or, looking black in the face, through grief and famine; Lamentations 4:6. Revelation 6:5. for faintnesse, they sinke or fall down to the ground. as Psalms 74:7. &89. 39, 44. Lamentations 2:19. &Lamentations 3:53.