Lamentations 4:8 - The Scriptures 1998

⁸ Their appearance has become blacker than soot; They have become unrecognised in the streets; Their skin has shrivelled on their bones, It has become dry, it has become 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

Job 19:20

My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

Job 2:12

And they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and did not recognise him, and they lifted their voices and wept. And each one tore his robe and sprinkled dust on his head toward the heavens.

Job 30:30

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

Job 33:21

His flesh wastes away, and his bones which were not seen stick out.

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a shadow that lengthens, And I wither away like grass.

Psalm 119:83

For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke, Your laws I have not forgotten.

Psalm 32:4

For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; My sap was turned into the droughts of summer. Selah.

Psalm 38:3

There is no soundness in my flesh because of Your rage, Nor peace in my bones because of my sin.

Isaiah 52:14

As many were astonished at You – so the disfigurement beyond any man’s and His form beyond the sons of men –

Lamentations 5:10

Our skin has become as hot as an oven, Because of the burning heat of scarcity of food.

Joel 2:6

Before them peoples are in anguish, all faces become flushed.

Nahum 2:10

She is empty, even emptiness and waste! And the heart has melted, and the knees have knocked together, and much pain is in all loins, and all their faces have become flushed.

Luke 10:11

‘Even the dust of your city which clings to us, we wipe off against you, but know this, that the reign of Elohim has come near to you.’