Lamentations 4:8

New American Bible - revised edition

Now their appearance is blacker than soot, they go unrecognized in the streets; Their skin has shrunk on their bones, and become dry as wood.

Cross References

Job 19:20

My bones cling to my skin, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

Job 2:12

But when, at a distance, they lifted up their eyes and did not recognize him, they began to weep aloud; they tore their cloaks and threw dust into the air over their heads.

Job 30:30

My blackened skin falls away from me; my very frame is scorched by the heat.

Job 33:21

His flesh is wasted, it cannot be seen; bones, once invisible, appear;

Psalm 102:11

Because of your furious wrath, you lifted me up just to cast me down.

Psalm 119:83

I am like a wineskin shriveled by smoke, but I have not forgotten your statutes.

Psalm 32:4

For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength withered as in dry summer heat. Selah

Psalm 38:3

Your arrows have sunk deep in me; your hand has come down upon me.

Isaiah 52:14

Even as many were amazed at him— so marred were his features, beyond that of mortals his appearance, beyond that of human beings—

Lamentations 5:10

Our skin heats up like an oven, from the searing blasts of famine.

Joel 2:6

Before them peoples tremble, every face turns pale.

Nahum 2:10

“Plunder the silver, plunder the gold!” There is no end to the treasure, to wealth in every precious thing!

Luke 10:11

‘The dust of your town that clings to our feet, even that we shake off against you.’ Yet know this: the kingdom of God is at hand.