Lamentations 4:8 Parallel Translations

Their faces are now blacker than soot. No one recognizes them on the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones. It has become as dry as bark.(GOD'S WORD®)

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.

ASV:

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.

BBE:

Their face is blacker than night; in the streets no one has knowledge of them: their skin is hanging on their bones, they are dry, they have become like wood.

DBY:

Their visage is darker than blackness, they are not known in the streets; their skin cleaveth to their bones, it is withered, it is become like a stick.

ERV:

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.

JPS:

Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets; their skin is shrivelled upon their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.

WBS:

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.

WEB:

Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: Their skin cleaves to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.

YLT:

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.

Lamentations 4:8 Cross References

XREF:

Job 19:20 "My bone clings to my skin and my flesh, And I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.

Job 30:30 "My skin turns black on me, And my bones burn with fever.

Psalm 102:3 For my days have been consumed in smoke, And my bones have been scorched like a hearth.

Lamentations 5:10 Our skin has become as hot as an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

4:8 Their {e} 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.
(e) They who were before most in God's favour are now in greatest abomination to him.

WES:

4:8 Not known - So that those who before knew them, do not know them now.

MHC:

4:1-12 What a change is here! Sin tarnishes the beauty of the most exalted powers and the most excellent gifts; but that gold, tried in the fire, which Christ bestows, never will be taken from us; its outward appearance may be dimmed, but its real value can never be changed. The horrors of the siege and destruction of Jerusalem are again described. Beholding the sad consequences of sin in the church of old, let us seriously consider to what the same causes may justly bring down the church now. But, Lord, though we have gone from thee in rebellion, yet turn to us, and turn our hearts to thee, that we may fear thy name. Come to us, bless us with awakening, converting, renewing, confirming grace.

CONC:

Appearance Blacker Blackness Bone Bones Cleaved Cleaves Cleaveth Coal Darker Dry Face Hanging Out-places Recognized Shriveled Shrivelled Skin Soot Stick Streets Visage Withered Wood

Appearance Blackness Bones Cleaved Cleaves Cleaveth Coal Darker Dry Face Hanging Night Out-Places Recognized Shriveled Shrivelled Skin Soot Stick Streets Visage Withered Wood

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