Lamentations 4
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Lamentations 4:8-10

8Their visageH8389 is blackerH2821 than a coalH7815; they are not knownH5234 in the streetsH2351: their skinH5785 cleavethH6821 to their bonesH6106; it is witheredH3001, it is become like a stickH6086.1

9They that be slainH2491 with the swordH2719 are betterH2896 than they that be slainH2491 with hungerH7458: for theseH1992 pine awayH2100, strickenH1856 through for want of the fruitsH8570 of the fieldH7704.2

10The handsH3027 of the pitifulH7362 womenH802 have soddenH1310 their own childrenH3206: they were their meatH1262 in the destructionH7667 of the daughterH1323 of my peopleH5971.

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Notes

  1. 1. Lamentations 4:8 blacker…: Heb. darker than blackness. ↩
  2. 2. Lamentations 4:9 pine…: Heb. flow out. ↩

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