and render it, "the hardness of their countenance"; so R. Joseph Kimchi, and others , meaning their impudence ; not only their words and actions, but their impudent looks, show what they are; which agrees with what follows:and they declare their sin as Sodom, andhide [it] not; commit it openly, without fear or shame; glory in it, and boast of it, as the Jews did in their crucifixion of Christ, and their evil treatment of him:woe to their soul, for they have rewarded evil unto themselves; they have brought upon themselves, soul and body, the just recompence of reward; they have been the cause of their own ruin, and have wronged their own souls.
Myhynp trkh "cognitio vultus eorum", Munster, Vatablus, V. L. "Obfermatio", Janius & Tremellius; "durities", Piscator. So Schindler renders the Arabic word , "hacar", impudence. Vid. Castel. Lexic. col.