Lamentations 4:8

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Now their visage is blacker than soot, they are not recognized in the streets; their skin has shriveled upon their bones, it has become as dry as wood.

Cross References

Job 19:20

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

Job 2:12

And when they saw him from afar, they did not recognize him; and they raised their voices and wept; and they rent their robes and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.

Job 30:30

My skin turns black and falls from me, and my bones burn with heat.

Job 33:21

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

Psalm 102:11

My days are like an evening shadow; I wither away like grass.

Psalm 119:83

For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke, yet I have not forgotten thy statutes.

Psalm 32:4

For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Selah

Psalm 38:3

There is no soundness in my flesh because of thy indignation; there is no health in my bones because of my sin.

Isaiah 52:14

As many were astonished at him — his appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance, and his form beyond that of the sons of men—

Lamentations 5:10

Our skin is hot as an oven with the burning heat of famine.

Joel 2:6

Before them peoples are in anguish, all faces grow pale.

Nahum 2:10

Desolate! Desolation and ruin! Hearts faint and knees tremble, anguish is on all loins, all faces grow pale!

Luke 10:11

‘Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet, we wipe off against you; nevertheless know this, that the kingdom of God has come near.’