My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
Lamentations 4:8 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 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. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 [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) 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 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 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. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Heth. Their face is now made blacker than coals and they are not known in the streets: their skin hath stuck to their bones: it is withered and is become like wood. |
My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
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.
My skin is black, and falleth from me, And my bones are burned with heat.
His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; And his bones that were not seen stick out.
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; Yet do I not forget thy statutes.
For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: My moisture was changed as with the drought of summer. Selah
There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignation; Neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.
Like as many were astonied at thee, (his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men,)
She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and anguish is in all loins, and the faces of them all are waxed pale.
Even the dust from your city, that cleaveth to our feet, we do wipe off against you: howbeit know this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh.