American Standard Version
Lamentations 4:8
8Their 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.
Lamentations 4:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)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.
- New International Version (NIV)But now they are blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as a stick.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Now their face is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets; their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as wood.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Now their appearance is blacker than soot; They go unrecognized in the streets; Their skin clings to their bones, It has become as dry as wood.
Context of Lamentations 4:8
6For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom, That was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands were laid upon her. 7Her nobles were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk; They were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was as of sapphire. 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. 9They that are slain with the sword are better than they that are slain with hunger; For these pine away, stricken through, for want of the fruits of the field. 10The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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חָשַׁ֤ךְ מִשְּׁחוֹר֙ תָּֽאֳרָ֔ם לֹ֥א נִכְּר֖וּ בַּחוּצ֑וֹת צָפַ֤ד עוֹרָם֙ עַל־עַצְמָ֔ם יָבֵ֖שׁ הָיָ֥ה כָעֵֽץ׃ סRead the interlinear
Cross-references for Lamentations 4:8
- Lamentations 5:10Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
- Job 30:17In the night season my bones are pierced in me, And thepainsthat gnaw me take no rest.
- Joel 2:6At their presence the peoples are in anguish; all faces are waxed pale.
- Nahum 2:10She is empty, and void, and waste; and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and anguish is in all loins, and the faces of them all are waxed pale.
- Lamentations 4:1How is the gold become dim! how is the most pure gold changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.
- Ruth 1:19So they two went until they came to Beth-lehem. And it came to pass, when they were come to Beth-lehem, that all the city was moved about them, and the women said, Is this Naomi?
- Job 2:12And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his robe, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.
- Isaiah 52:14Like as many were astonished at thee (his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men),
- Job 19:20My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
- Job 33:21His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; And his bones that were not seen stick out.
- Psalms 32:4For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: My moisture was changed as with the drought of summer. [Selah
- Psalms 38:3There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignation; Neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.
- Psalms 102:3For my days consume away like smoke, And my bones are burned as a firebrand.
- Psalms 119:83For I am become like a wine-skin in the smoke; Yet do I not forget thy statutes.
Commentaries on Lamentations 4:8
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8Their visage - Their form (their whole person, see 1 Samuel 28:14) as in the margin. See Job 30:30. It is withered, it is become like a stick - Or, It has become dry like a piece of wood.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 8Skin sticking to bones is symptomatic of the final stages of starvation, just before death.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 88. blacker than ... coal--or, "than blackness" itself (Joe 2:6; Na 2:10). like a stick--as withered as a dry stick. Teth.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Lamentations 4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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