Lamentations 4:8 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ 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.

Lamentations 4:8 Cross References

Job 19:20

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

Job 2:12

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.

Job 30:30

My skin is black, and falleth from me, And my bones are burned with heat.

Job 33:21

His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; And his bones that were not seen stick out.

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a shadow that declineth; And I am withered like grass.

Psalm 119:83

For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; Yet do I not forget thy statutes.

Psalm 32:4

For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: My moisture was changed as with the drought of summer. Selah

Psalm 38:3

There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignation; Neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.

Isaiah 52:14

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,)

Lamentations 5:10

Our skin is black like an oven because of the burning heat of famine.

Joel 2:6

At their presence the peoples are in anguish: all faces are waxed pale.

Nahum 2:10

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.

Luke 10:11

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.