Lamentations 4:8

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 30:30 : 30 My skin is black, [and falleth] from me, And my bones are burned with heat.
  • Ps 102:3-5 : 3 For my days consume away like smoke, And my bones are burned as a firebrand. 4 My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; For I forget to eat my bread. 5 By reason of the voice of my groaning My bones cleave to my flesh.
  • Lam 5:10 : 10 Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
  • Ps 119:83 : 83 For I am become like a wine-skin in the smoke; Yet do I not forget thy statutes.
  • Job 19:20 : 20 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
  • Job 30:17-19 : 17 In the night season my bones are pierced in me, And the [pains] that gnaw me take no rest. 18 By [God's] great force is my garment disfigured; It bindeth me about as the collar of my coat. 19 He hath cast me into the mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.
  • Ruth 1:19-20 : 19 So 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? 20 And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara; for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.
  • Job 2:12 : 12 And 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.
  • Job 33:21 : 21 His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; And his bones that were not seen stick out.
  • Ps 32:4 : 4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: My moisture was changed [as] with the drought of summer. {{Selah
  • Ps 38:3 : 3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignation; Neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.
  • Isa 52:14 : 14 Like as many were astonished at thee (his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men),
  • Lam 4:1-2 : 1 How 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. 2 The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, How are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
  • Ps 102:11 : 11 My days are like a shadow that declineth; And I am withered like grass.
  • Joel 2:6 : 6 At their presence the peoples are in anguish; all faces are waxed pale.
  • Nah 2:10 : 10 She 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.

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  • Lam 5:9-11
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    9We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

    10Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.

    11They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.

  • Job 30:30
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    30My skin is black, [and falleth] from me, And my bones are burned with heat.

  • Lam 4:5-7
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    5They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: They that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

    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.

  • Job 33:21
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    21His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; And his bones that were not seen stick out.

  • Joel 2:6
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    6At their presence the peoples are in anguish; all faces are waxed pale.

  • Job 6:16-17
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    16Which are black by reason of the ice, [And] wherein the snow hideth itself:

    17What time they wax warm, they vanish; When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

  • Song 1:5-6
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    5I am black, but comely, Oh ye daughters of Jerusalem, As the tents of Kedar, As the curtains of Solomon.

    6Look not upon me, because I am swarthy, Because the sun hath scorched me. My mother's sons were incensed against me; They made me keeper of the vineyards; [But] mine own vineyard have I not kept.

  • Lam 4:9
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    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.

  • Nah 2:10
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    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.

  • Ps 102:5
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    5By reason of the voice of my groaning My bones cleave to my flesh.

  • Song 5:11
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    11His head is [as] the most fine gold; His locks are bushy, [and] black as a raven.

  • Ezek 7:18
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    18They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.

  • Mic 3:2-3
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    2ye who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;

    3who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

  • Ps 73:7
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    7Their eyes stand out with fatness: They have more than heart could wish.

  • Isa 3:9
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    9The show of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have done evil unto themselves.

  • Job 24:16-17
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    16In the dark they dig through houses: They shut themselves up in the day-time; They know not the light.

    17For the morning is to all of them as thick darkness; For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

  • Jer 8:21
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    21For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt: I mourn; dismay hath taken hold on me.

  • Lam 3:4
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    4My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

  • Job 30:3
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    3They are gaunt with want and famine; They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.

  • Job 7:5
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    5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; My skin closeth up, and breaketh out afresh.

  • Job 3:5
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    5Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own; Let a cloud dwell upon it; Let all that maketh black the day terrify it.

  • Lam 4:14
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    14They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted with blood, So that men cannot touch their garments.

  • Isa 8:22
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    22and they shall look unto the earth, and behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and into thick darkness [they shall be] driven away.

  • Isa 1:6-7
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    6From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; [but] wounds, and bruises, and fresh stripes: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with oil.

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  • Isa 47:14
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    14Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: it shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit before.

  • Joel 1:7
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    7He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig-tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.

  • Job 13:12
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    12Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defences are defences of clay.

  • Job 5:14
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    14They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.

  • Ezek 4:17
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    17that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.

  • Job 24:10-11
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    10[ So that] they go about naked without clothing, And being hungry they carry the sheaves.

    11They make oil within the walls of these men; They tread [their] winepresses, and suffer thirst.

  • Job 41:23
    67%

    23The flakes of his flesh are joined together: They are firm upon him; They cannot be moved.

  • Ezek 27:30
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    30and shall cause their voice to be heard over thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:

  • Ps 141:7
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    7As when one ploweth and cleaveth the earth, Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

  • Ps 69:23
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    23Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see; And make their loins continually to shake.

  • Job 4:20
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    20Betwixt morning and evening they are destroyed: They perish for ever without any regarding it.

  • Job 16:8
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    8And thou hast laid fast hold on me, [which] is a witness [against me] : And my leanness riseth up against me, It testifieth to my face.

  • Job 36:14
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    14They die in youth, And their life [perisheth] among the unclean.

  • Jer 5:16
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    16Their quiver is an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.

  • Hos 7:9
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    9Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth [it] not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, and he knoweth [it] not.