Lamentations 4:8

New Living Translation

But now their faces are blacker than soot. No one recognizes them in the streets. Their skin sticks to their bones; it is as dry and hard as wood.

Cross References

Job 19:20

I have been reduced to skin and bones and have escaped death by the skin of my teeth.

Job 2:12

When they saw Job from a distance, they scarcely recognized him. Wailing loudly, they tore their robes and threw dust into the air over their heads to show their grief.

Job 30:30

My skin has turned dark, and my bones burn with fever.

Job 33:21

Their flesh wastes away, and their bones stick out.

Psalm 102:11

My life passes as swiftly as the evening shadows. I am withering away like grass.

Psalm 119:83

I am shriveled like a wineskin in the smoke, but I have not forgotten to obey your decrees.

Psalm 32:4

Day and night your hand of discipline was heavy on me. My strength evaporated like water in the summer heat. Interlude

Psalm 38:3

Because of your anger, my whole body is sick; my health is broken because of my sins.

Isaiah 52:14

But many were amazed when they saw him. His face was so disfigured he seemed hardly human, and from his appearance, one would scarcely know he was a man.

Lamentations 5:10

The famine has blackened our skin as though baked in an oven.

Joel 2:6

Fear grips all the people; every face grows pale with terror.

Nahum 2:10

Soon the city is plundered, empty, and ruined. Hearts melt and knees shake. The people stand aghast, their faces pale and trembling.

Luke 10:11

‘We wipe even the dust of your town from our feet to show that we have abandoned you to your fate. And know this—the Kingdom of God is near!’