Verse (Click for Chapter) GOD'S WORD® Translation Their faces are [now] blacker than soot. No one recognizes them on the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones. It has become as dry as bark. 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. Berean Study Bible But now their appearance is 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. Douay-Rheims Bible Heth. Their face is now made blacker than coals, and they are not known in the streets: their skin hath stuck to their bones, it is withered, and is become like wood. English Revised 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. 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. World English Bible Their appearance is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: Their skin clings 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 ... Links Lamentations 4:8 NIVLamentations 4:8 NLT Lamentations 4:8 ESV Lamentations 4:8 NASB Lamentations 4:8 NKJV Lamentations 4:8 KJV |