Lamentations 4:8 - Modern English Version

⁸ Their form is blacker than coal; they are not recognized in the streets; their skin cleaves to their bones, it has become as dry as wood.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ Their visage is blacker than a coal; They are not known in the streets: Their skin cleaveth to their bones; It is withered, it is become like a stick.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ [Prolonged famine has made] them look blacker than soot and darkness; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin clings to their bones; it is withered and it has become [dry] like a stick.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: Their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.

Common English Bible

⁸ But their appearance grew darker than soot; they weren’t recognized in the streets. Their skin shriveled on their bones; it became dry like wood.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ HETH. Their face has been blacked more than coals, and they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has adhered to their bones; it dried out and became like wood.

Lamentations 4:8 Tagairtí Cros

Job 19:20

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

Job 2:12

They saw him from a distance and did not recognize him, so they wept aloud. Each one tore his robe, and they tossed dust into the air above their heads.

Job 30:30

My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with fever.

Job 33:21

His flesh is consumed away that it cannot be seen, and his bones that 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 have I not forgotten Your statutes.

Psalm 32:4

For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was turned into the drought of summer.   Selah

Psalm 38:3

There is no soundness in my flesh because of Your indignation, nor is there health in my bones because of my sin.

Isaiah 52:14

Just as many were astonished at you, his visage was so marred, more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men;

Lamentations 5:10

Our skin is hot as an oven, because of the terrible famine.

Joel 2:6

Before them, peoples are tormented; every face turns pale.

Nahum 2:10

She is desolate, empty, and waste! Hearts melt away, and knees shake; pain is in all the loins, and all their faces grow pale.

Luke 10:11

‘Even the dust of your city which clings to us, we wipe off against you. Yet be sure of this, that the kingdom of God has come near to you.’