Lamentations 4:8

Now darker than a coal is their countenance; they are not known in the streets. Their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is become dry, like wood.

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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

7Her princes were purer than snow, whiter than milk; More ruddy than coral was their body; Their visage was of sapphire.

9More fortunate are the slain by the sword than the slain by famine; For these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.

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Cross References

Job 2:12And they lifted up their eyes at a distance, and knew him not; then they raised their voices and wept, and rent each one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.

Job 30:17By night my bones are pierced; they are torn from me, And my gnawers take no rest.

Job 33:21His flesh is consumed, that it cannot be seen, And his bones, that were invisible, are naked;

Psalms 38:3There is no soundness in my flesh, because of thine anger; Nor rest in my bones, because of my sin.

Psalms 102:11My life is like a declining shadow, And I wither like grass.

Isaiah 52:14As many were amazed at the sight of him,—So disfigured and scarcely human was his visage, And so unlike that of a man was his form,—

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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