Lamentations 4:8

A Conservative Version

Their visage is blacker than a coal. They are not known in the streets. Their skin clings to their bones. It is withered. It has become like a stick.

Cross References

Lamentations 5:10

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

Job 30:30

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

Psalm 119:83

For I have become like a wine-skin in the smoke. Yet I do not forget thy statutes.

Job 19:20

My bone cleaves to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped with the skin of my teeth.

Nahum 2:10

She is empty, and void, and waste. And the heart melts, and the knees smite together, and anguish is in all loins, and the faces of them all have grown pale.

Joel 2:6

At their presence the peoples are in anguish; all faces have grown pale.

Isaiah 52:14

Just as many were astonished at thee (his visage was so marred, more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men),

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a shadow that declines, and I am withered like grass.

Psalm 38:3

There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignation, nor is there any health in my bones because of my sin.

Psalm 32:4

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

Job 33:21

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

Job 2:12

And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and did not recognize him, they lifted up their voice, and wept. And each one tore his robe, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.

Luke 10:11

Even the dust that clings on us from your city, we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know ye this, that the kingdom of God has come near to you.