Lamentations 4:8
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.
KJV
Denigrata est super carbones facies eorum et non sunt cogniti in plateis ; adhæsit cutis eorum ossibus : aruit, et facta est quasi lignum.
Vulgate
Ἥθ. Ἐσκότασεν ὑπὲρ ἀσβόλην τὸ εἶδος αὐτῶν, οὐκ ἐπεγνώσθησαν ἐν ταῖς ἐξόδοις· ἐπάγη δέρμα αὐτῶν ἐπὶ τὰ ὀστέα αὐτῶν, ἐξηράνθησαν, ἐγενήθησαν ὥσπερ ξύλον.
LXX
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.
ASV
חָשַׁ֤ךְ מִ/שְּׁחוֹר֙ תָּֽאֳרָ֔/ם לֹ֥א נִכְּר֖וּ בַּ/חוּצ֑וֹת צָפַ֤ד עוֹרָ/ם֙ עַל עַצְמָ֔/ם יָבֵ֖שׁ הָיָ֥ה כָ/עֵֽץ
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
13 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Jer 14:2 — Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
- Job 19:20 — My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
- Job 19:20 — My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
- Job 30:30 — My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
- Job 30:30 — My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
- Joel 2:6 — Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.
- Lam 5:10 — Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
- Lam 5:10 — Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
- Ps 102:3 — For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
- Ps 102:5 — By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
- Ps 119:83 — For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.
- Song 1:6 — Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother’s children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.