Lamentations 4:8
 Lamentations 4:8 
New International Version (© 2011)
But now they are blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as a stick.

King James Bible
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.

American Standard Version
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.

Young's Literal Translation
Darker than blackness hath been their visage, They have not been known in out-places, Cleaved hath their skin unto their bone, It hath withered -- it hath been as wood.

Lamentations 4:8 Additional Translations
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visage

Lamentations 5:10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

Job 30:17-19,30 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest...

Joel 2:6 Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.

Nahum 2:10 She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melts, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins...

blacker than a coal. Heb. darker than blackness. Or, as Dr. Blayney renders, 'duskier than the dawn;' shachar signifying 'the dawn of the day, when it is neither light nor dark, but between both, at which time objects are not easily distinguished. they

Lamentations 4:1,2 How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street...

Ruth 1:19,20 So they two went until they came to Bethlehem. And it came to pass, when they were come to Bethlehem...

Job 2:12 And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle...

Isaiah 52:14 As many were astonished at you; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:

their skins

Job 19:20 My bone sticks to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

Job 33:21 His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.

Psalm 32:4 For day and night your hand was heavy on me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

Psalm 38:3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of your anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.

Psalm 102:3-5,11 For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth...

Psalm 119:83 For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget your statutes.

Lamentations 4:8 Parallel Commentaries
Appearance Blackness Bones Cleaved Cleaves Cleaveth Coal Darker Dry Face Hanging Night Out-Places Recognized Shriveled Shrivelled Skin Soot Stick Streets Visage Withered Wood
Appearance Blackness Bones Cleaved Cleaves Cleaveth Coal Darker Dry Face Hanging Night Out-Places Recognized Shriveled Shrivelled Skin Soot Stick Streets Visage Withered Wood
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Luke 10:11 Even the dust of your town we wipe from our feet as a warning to you. Yet be sure of this: The kingdom of God has come near.'
Job 19:20 I am nothing but skin and bones; I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.
Job 30:30 My skin grows black and peels; my body burns with fever.
Psalm 102:3 For my days vanish like smoke; my bones burn like glowing embers.
Psalm 102:5 In my distress I groan aloud and am reduced to skin and bones.
Lamentations 5:10 Our skin is hot as an oven, feverish from hunger.