Lamentations 4:8

New International Reader's Version

But now they are blacker than coal. No one even recognizes them in the streets. Their skin is wrinkled on their bones. It has become as dry as a stick.

Cross References

Job 19:20

I’m nothing but skin and bones. I’ve barely escaped death.

Job 2:12

When they got closer to where he lived, they could see him. But they could hardly recognize him. They began to weep out loud. They tore their robes and sprinkled dust on their heads.

Job 30:30

My skin grows black and peels. My body burns with fever.

Job 33:21

Their body might waste away to nothing. Their bones might have been hidden. But now they stick out.

Psalm 102:11

The days of my life are like an evening shadow. I dry up like grass.

Psalm 119:83

I’m as useless as a wineskin that smoke has dried up. But I don’t forget to follow your orders.

Psalm 32:4

Day and night you punished me. I became weaker and weaker as I do in the heat of summer.

Psalm 38:3

Because of your anger, my whole body is sick. Because of my sin, I’m not healthy.

Isaiah 52:14

Many people were shocked when they saw him. He was so scarred that he no longer looked like a person. His body was so twisted that he did not look like a human being anymore.

Lamentations 5:10

Our skin is as hot as an oven. We are so hungry we’re burning up with fever.

Joel 2:6

When people see them, they tremble with fear. All their faces turn pale.

Nahum 2:10

Nineveh is destroyed, robbed and stripped! Hearts melt away in fear. Knees give way. Bodies tremble with fear. Everyone’s face turns pale.

Luke 10:11

‘We wipe from our feet even the dust of your town. We do it to warn you. But here is what you can be sure of. God’s kingdom has come near.’