Lamentations 4:8

Their countenance is become blacker than smoke; 1 They are not known in the streets: 1 Their skin has cloven to their bones; 1 They are withered, they are become as a stick. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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

7Her Nazirites were made purer than snow, 1 They were whiter than milk, 1 They were purified as with fire, 1 Their polishing was superior to sapphire stone. 1

9The slain with the sword were better 1 Than they that were slain with hunger: 1 They have departed, 1 Pierced through from want of the fruits of the field. 1

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Cross References

Job 2:12And when they saw him from a distance they did not know him; 1 And they cried with a loud voice, and wept, 1 And rent every one his garment, 1 And sprinkled dust upon their heads, 1

Job 30:17And by night my bones are confounded; 1 And my sinews are relaxed. 1

Job 33:21Until his flesh shall be consumed, 1 And he shall show his bones bare. 1

Psalms 38:3I was dumb, and humbled myself, and kept silence from good words; 1 And my grief was renewed. 1

Psalms 102:11For as the heaven is high above the earth, 1 The Lord has so increased his mercy toward them that fear him. 1

Isaiah 52:14As many shall be amazed at thee, so shall thy face be without glory from men, and thy glory shall not be honored by 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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