Lamentations 4:8

Heth. The face of hem was maad blackere than coolis, and thei weren not knowun in stretis; the skyn cleuyde to her boonys, it driede, and was maad as a tre.

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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

7Zai. Nazareis therof weren whitere than snow, schynyngere than mylk; rodier than elde yuer, fairere than safire.

9Teth. It was betere to men slayn with swerd, than to men slayn with hungur; for these men wexiden rotun, thei weren wastid of the bareynesse of erthe.

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Cross References

Job 2:12And whanne thei hadden reisid afer `her iyen, thei knewen not hym; and thei crieden, and wepten, and to-renten her clothis, and spreynten dust on her heed `in to heuene.

Job 30:17In nyyt my boon is persid with sorewis; and thei, that eten me, slepen not.

Job 33:21His fleisch schal faile for rot, and hise boonys, that weren hilid, schulen be maad nakid.

Psalms 38:3I was doumb, and was mekid ful gretli, and was stille fro goodis; and my sorewe was renulid.

Psalms 102:11For bi the hiynesse of heuene fro erthe; he made strong his merci on men dredynge hym.

Isaiah 52:14As many men wondriden on hym, so his biholdyng schal be with out glorie among men, and the fourme of hym among the sones of men.

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