Lamentations 4:8

Darker than blackness hath been their visage, They have not been known in out-places, Cleaved hath their skin unto their bone, It hath withered — it hath been as wood.

Young's Literal Translation

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 rend each his robe, and sprinkle dust on their heads — heavenward.

Job 30:17At night my bone hath been pierced in me, And mine eyelids do not lie down.

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

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

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

Isaiah 52:14As astonished at thee have been many, (So marred by man his appearance, 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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