Lamentations 4:8 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁸ Now they appear darker than soot; they are not recognised in the streets. Their skin has shrivelled on their bones; it has become dry like wood.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ [Prolonged famine has made] them look blacker than soot and darkness; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin clings to their bones; it is withered and it has become [dry] like a stick.

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

Common English Bible

⁸ But their appearance grew darker than soot; they weren’t recognized in the streets. Their skin shriveled on their bones; it became dry like wood.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ HETH. Their face has been blacked more than coals, and they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has adhered to their bones; it dried out and became like wood.

Lamentations 4:8 Cross References

Job 19:20

My skin and my flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped with only the skin of my teeth.

Job 2:12

When they looked from a distance, they could barely recognise him. They wept aloud,  and each man tore his robe and threw dust into the air and on his head.

Job 30:30

My skin blackens and flakes off, and my bones burn with fever.

Job 33:21

His flesh wastes away to nothing, and his unseen bones stick out.

Isaiah 52:14

Just as many were appalled at you   – his appearance was so disfigured that he did not look like a man, and his form did not resemble a human being –

Lamentations 5:10

Our skin is as hot  as an oven from the ravages of hunger.

Joel 2:6

Nations writhe in horror before them; all faces turn pale.

Nahum 2:10

Desolation, decimation, devastation! Hearts melt, knees tremble, insides churn, every face grows pale!

Luke 10:11

“We are wiping off even the dust of your town that clings to our feet as a witness against you.   Know this for certain: The kingdom of God has come near.”