Lamentations 4:8

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.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James 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.

In Context

7Zain. Her Nazarites were whiter than snow, purer than milk, more ruddy than the old ivory, fairer than the sapphire.

9Teth. It was better with them that were slain by the sword, than with them that died with hunger: for these pined away being consumed for want of the fruits of the earth.

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Cross References

Job 2:12And when they had lifted up their eyes afar off, they knew him not, and crying out they wept, and rending their garments they sprinkled dust upon their heads towards heaven.

Job 30:17In the night my bone is pierced with sorrows: and they that feed upon me, do not sleep.

Job 33:21His flesh shall be consumed away, and his bones that were covered shall be made bare.

Psalms 38:3For thy arrows are fastened in me : and thy hand hath been strong upon me.

Psalms 102:11Because of thy anger and indignation: for having lifted me up thou hast thrown me down.

Isaiah 52:14As many have been astonished at thee, so shall his visage be inglorious among men, and his form among the sons of men.

Matthew Henry on Lamentations 4:2-13

Desolate Condition of Jerusalem; Effects of Famine in Jerusalem; Destruction of Jerusalem. ( b. c. 588.) 1 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. 2 The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter! 3 Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches… Read the whole commentary →

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