Lamentations 4:8

God's Word

Their faces are ⌞now⌟ blacker than soot. No one recognizes them on the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones. It has become as dry as bark.

Cross References

Job 19:20

I am skin and bones, and I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.

Job 2:12

When they saw him from a distance, they didn’t even recognize him. They cried out loud and wept, and each of them tore his own clothes in grief. They threw dust on their heads.

Job 30:30

My skin turns dark and peels. My body burns with fever.

Job 33:21

Their flesh becomes so thin that it can’t be seen. Their bones, not seen before, will be exposed.

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a shadow that is getting longer, and I wither away like grass.

Psalm 119:83

Although I have become like a shriveled and dried out wineskin, I have not forgotten your laws.

Psalm 32:4

Day and night your hand laid heavily on me. My strength shriveled in the summer heat. Selah

Psalm 38:3

No healthy spot is left on my body because of your rage. There is no peace in my bones because of my sin.

Isaiah 52:14

Many will be shocked by him. His appearance will be so disfigured that he won’t look like any other man. His looks will be so disfigured that he will hardly look like a human.

Lamentations 5:10

Our skin is as hot as an oven from the burning heat of starvation.

Joel 2:6

People are terrified in their presence. Every face turns pale.

Nahum 2:10

Nineveh is destroyed, deserted, demolished. Hearts are melting. Knees are knocking. Every stomach becomes upset. Every face turns pale.

Luke 10:11

‘We are wiping your city’s dust from our feet in protest against you! But realize that God’s kingdom is near you!’