Lamentations 4:8

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.

Cross References

Job 19:20

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

Job 2:12

And when they looked from afar off and saw him [disfigured] beyond recognition, they lifted up their voices and wept; and each one tore his robe, and they cast dust over their heads toward the heavens.

Job 30:30

My skin falls from me in blackened flakes, and my bones are burned with heat.

Job 33:21

His flesh is so wasted away that it cannot be seen, and his bones that were not seen stick out.

Psalm 102:11

My days are like an evening shadow that stretches out and declines [with the sun]; and I am withered like grass.

Psalm 119:83

For I have become like a bottle [a wineskin blackened and shriveled] in the smoke [in which it hangs], yet do I not forget Your statutes.

Psalm 32:4

For day and night Your hand [of displeasure] was heavy upon me; my moisture was turned into the drought of summer. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!

Psalm 38:3

There is no soundness in my flesh because of Your indignation; neither is there any health or rest in my bones because of my sin.

Isaiah 52:14

[For many the Servant of God became an object of horror; many were astonished at Him.] His face and His whole appearance were marred more than any man's, and His form beyond that of the sons of men–but just as many were astonished at Him,

Lamentations 5:10

Our skin glows and is parched as from [the heat of] an oven because of the burning heat of [the fever of] famine.

Joel 2:6

Before them the peoples are in anguish; all faces become pale.

Nahum 2:10

Emptiness! Desolation! Utter waste! Hearts faint and knees smite together, and anguish is in all loins, and the faces of all grow pale! [Isa. 13:7, 8.]

Luke 10:11

Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet we are wiping off against you; yet know and understand this: the kingdom of God has come near you.