Lamentations 4:8

Their visage is blacker than soot; 1 they are not known in the streets; 1 their skin cleaveth to their atzmot; 1 it is dried up, it is become like a stick. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 nobles were purer than snow; 1 they were whiter than cholov, 1 they were more ruddy in body than rubies, 1 their appearance was of sapphire; 1

9They that are slain with the cherev 1 are better than they that are slain with hunger; 1 for these pine away, 1 being pierced for want of the increase of the sadeh. 1

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Cross References

Job 2:12And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and recognized him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they made the keri'ah every one on his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward Shomayim.

Job 30:17My atzmot are pierced in me in the night, 1 and my gnawing pains take no rest. 1

Job 33:21His basar is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; 1 and his atzmot that were not seen stick out. 1

Psalms 38:3For Thine khitzim (arrows) pierce me, 1 and Thy Yad presseth upon me. 1

Psalms 102:11Because of Thine za'am (indignation) and Thy ketsef (wrath, anger); 1 for Thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down. 1

Isaiah 52:14As rabbim (many) were appalled at thee; + 52:14 Moshiach 1 his appearance was so disfigured more than any man, 1 and his form more than the bnei adam; 1

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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