Lamentations 4:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ Now their visage is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as 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

Lamentations 5:10

Our skin is black as an oven from the scorching heat of famine.

Job 30:30

My skin turns black and falls from me, and my bones burn with heat.

Psalm 119:83

For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke, yet I have not forgotten your statutes.

Job 19:20

My bones cling to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

Nahum 2:10

Devastation, desolation, and destruction! Hearts faint and knees tremble; all loins quake; all faces grow pale!

Joel 2:6

Before them peoples are in anguish; all faces grow pale.

Isaiah 52:14

Just as there were many who were astonished at him —so marred was his appearance, beyond human semblance, and his form beyond that of mortals—

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a lengthening shadow; I wither away like grass.

Psalm 38:3

There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation; there is no health in my bones because of my sin.

Psalm 32:4

For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Selah

Job 33:21

Their flesh is so wasted away that it cannot be seen, and their bones, once invisible, now stick out.

Job 2:12

When they saw him from a distance, they did not recognize him, and they raised their voices and wept aloud; they tore their robes and threw dust in the air upon their heads.

Luke 10:11

‘Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet, we wipe off in protest against you. Yet know this: the kingdom of God has come near.’