Lamentations 4:8

Their face has been darker than blackness, || They have not been known in out-places, || Their skin has cleaved to their bone, || It has withered—it has been as wood.

Literal Standard Version

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

7Purer were her Nazarites than snow, || Whiter than milk, ruddier of body than rubies, || Of sapphire their form.

9Better have been the pierced of a sword || Than the pierced of famine, || For these flow away, pierced through, || Without the increase of the field.

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Cross References

Job 2:12and they lift up their eyes from afar and have not discerned him, and they lift up their voice and weep, and each tears his robe, and sprinkle dust on their heads—heavenward.

Job 30:17[At] night my bone has been pierced in me, || And my gnawing [pain] does not lie down.

Job 33:21His flesh is consumed from being seen, || And his bones are high, they were not seen!

Psalms 38:3Soundness is not in my flesh, || Because of Your indignation, || Peace is not in my bones, || Because of my sin.

Psalms 102:11My days [are] stretched out as a shadow, || And I am withered as the herb.

Isaiah 52:14As many have been astonished at You || (His appearance so marred by man, || And His form by 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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