Lamentations 4:8
oTheir *visage is 4blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: ptheir skin cleaveth to their bones; qit is withered, it is become like a stick.
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.
o:
Nahum 2:2 For the LORD hath turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine branches.
Lamentations 5:10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
Lamentations 4:4 The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.
Job 30:27-30:30 27. My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me. 28. I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation. 29. I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls. 30. My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
Jeremiah 14:2 Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
*:
visage-face.
4:
Heb. darker than blackness.
p:
Job 19:20 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
Psalms 102:4 My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
q:
Psalms 119:83 For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.
Psalms 22:14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
Psalms 102:3 For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
Psalms 102:10 Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.
They that in the prosperity of the city were fair, plump, and ruddy, look now black for want of fit nourishment, and through sorrow and grief; insomuch that those who before knew them by their countenances, garbs, and habits, did not now know them. And by reason of the famine (for he speaketh with relation to the famine during the siege) they are almost starved, their skin is withered and hard, and even sticketh to their bones.