Lamentations 4:8

Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.

Their visage {H8389} is blacker {H2821} than a coal {H7815}; they are not known {H5234} in the streets {H2351}: their skin {H5785} cleaveth {H6821} to their bones {H6106}; it is withered {H3001}, it is become like a stick {H6086}.

Now their faces are blacker than coal; in the streets they go unrecognized. Their skin has shriveled over their bones and become as dry as a stick.

But now their appearance is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as a stick.

Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: Their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.

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Cross-References

  • Psalms 102:3 (4 votes)

    For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.

  • Psalms 102:5 (4 votes)

    By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.

  • Lamentations 5:10 (4 votes)

    Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

  • Job 30:30 (4 votes)

    My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

  • Psalms 119:83 (3 votes)

    ¶ For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; [yet] do I not forget thy statutes.

  • Job 19:20 (3 votes)

    My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

  • Job 2:12 (2 votes)

    And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.