Lamentations 4:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 30:30 : 30 My skin is black and dropping off me; and my bones are burning with the heat of my disease.
  • Ps 102:3-5 : 3 My days are wasted like smoke, and my bones are burned up as in a fire. 4 My heart is broken; it has become dry and dead like grass, so that I give no thought to food. 5 Because of the voice of my sorrow, my flesh is wasted to the bone.
  • Lam 5:10 : 10 Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from need of food.
  • Ps 119:83 : 83 For I have become like a wine-skin black with smoke; but I still keep the memory of your rules.
  • Job 19:20 : 20 My bones are joined to my skin, and I have got away with my flesh in my teeth.
  • Job 30:17-19 : 17 The flesh is gone from my bones, and they give me no rest; there is no end to my pains. 18 With great force he takes a grip of my clothing, pulling me by the neck of my coat. 19 Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.
  • Ruth 1:19-20 : 19 So the two of them went on till they came to Beth-lehem. And when they came to Beth-lehem all the town was moved about them, and they said, Is this Naomi? 20 And she said to them, Do not let my name be Naomi, but Mara, for the Ruler of all has given me a bitter fate.
  • Job 2:12 : 12 And lifting up their eyes when they were still far off, it did not seem that the man they saw was Job because of the change in him. And they gave way to bitter weeping, with signs of grief, and put dust on their heads.
  • Job 33:21 : 21 His flesh is so wasted away, that it may not be seen, and his bones. ...
  • Ps 32:4 : 4 For the weight of your hand was on me day and night; my body became dry like the earth in summer. (Selah.)
  • Ps 38:3 : 3 My flesh is wasted because of your wrath; and there is no peace in my bones because of my sin.
  • Isa 52:14 : 14 As peoples were surprised at him, And his face was not beautiful, so as to be desired: his face was so changed by disease as to be unlike that of a man, and his form was no longer that of the sons of men.
  • Lam 4:1-2 : 1 How dark has the gold become! how changed the best gold! the stones of the holy place are dropping out at the top of every street. 2 The valued sons of Zion, whose price was the best gold, are looked on as vessels of earth, the work of the hands of the potter!
  • Ps 102:11 : 11 My days are like a shade which is stretched out; I am dry like the grass.
  • Joel 2:6 : 6 At their coming the people are bent with pain: all faces become red together.
  • Nah 2:10 : 10 Take silver, take gold; for there is no end to the store; take for yourselves a weight of things to be desired.

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    9 We put our lives in danger to get our bread, because of the sword of the waste land.

    10 Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from need of food.

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  • Job 30:30
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    30 My skin is black and dropping off me; and my bones are burning with the heat of my disease.

  • Lam 4:5-7
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    5 Those who were used to feasting on delicate food are wasted in the streets: those who as children were dressed in purple are stretched out on the dust.

    6 For the punishment of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of Sodom, which was overturned suddenly without any hand falling on her.

    7 Her holy ones were cleaner than snow, they were whiter than milk, their bodies were redder than corals, their form was as the sapphire:

  • Job 33:21
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    21 His flesh is so wasted away, that it may not be seen, and his bones. ...

  • Joel 2:6
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    6 At their coming the people are bent with pain: all faces become red together.

  • Job 6:16-17
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    16 Which are dark because of the ice, and the snow falling into them;

    17 Under the burning sun they are cut off, and come to nothing because of the heat.

  • Song 1:5-6
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    5 I am dark, but fair of form, O daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.

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  • Lam 4:9
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    9 Those who have been put to the sword are better off than those whose death is caused by need of food; for these come to death slowly, burned up like the fruit of the field.

  • Nah 2:10
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    10 Take silver, take gold; for there is no end to the store; take for yourselves a weight of things to be desired.

  • Ps 102:5
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    5 Because of the voice of my sorrow, my flesh is wasted to the bone.

  • Song 5:11
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    11 His head is as the most delicate gold; his hair is thick, and black as a raven.

  • Ezek 7:18
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    18 And they will put haircloth round them, and deep fear will be covering them; and shame will be on all faces, and the hair gone from all their heads.

  • Mic 3:2-3
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    2 You who are haters of good and lovers of evil, pulling off their skin from them and their flesh from their bones;

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    7 Their eyes are bursting with fat; they have more than their heart's desire.

  • Isa 3:9
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    9 Their respect for a man's position is a witness against them; and their sin is open to the view of all; like that of Sodom, it is not covered. A curse on their soul! for the measure of their sin is full.

  • Job 24:16-17
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    16 In the dark he makes holes in the walls of houses: in the daytime they are shutting themselves up, they have no knowledge of the light.

    17 For the middle of the night is as morning to them, they are not troubled by the fear of the dark.

  • Jer 8:21
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    21 For the destruction of the daughter of my people I am broken: I am dressed in the clothing of grief; fear has taken me in its grip.

  • Lam 3:4
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    4 My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken.

  • Job 30:3
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    3 They are wasted for need of food, biting the dry earth; their only hope of life is in the waste land.

  • Job 7:5
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    5 My flesh is covered with worms and dust; my skin gets hard and then is cracked again.

  • Job 3:5
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  • Lam 4:14
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    14 They are wandering like blind men in the streets, they are made unclean with blood, so that their robes may not be touched by men.

  • Isa 8:22
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    22 And he will be looking down on the earth, and there will be trouble and dark clouds, black night where there is no seeing.

  • Isa 1:6-7
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    14 Truly, they have become like dry stems, they have been burned in the fire; they are not able to keep themselves safe from the power of the flame: it is not a coal for warming them, or a fire by which a man may be seated.

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    7 By him my vine is made waste and my fig-tree broken: he has taken all its fruit and sent it down to the earth; its branches are made white.

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    12 Your wise sayings are only dust, and your strong places are only earth.

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  • Ezek 4:17
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    17 So that they may be in need of bread and water and be wondering at one another, wasting away in their sin.

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    10 Others go about without clothing, and though they have no food, they get in the grain from the fields.

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    23 After him his way is shining, so that the deep seems white.

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    30 And their voices will be sounding over you, and crying bitterly they will put dust on their heads, rolling themselves in the dust:

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    20 Between morning and evening they are completely broken; they come to an end for ever, and no one takes note.

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    16 Their arrows give certain death, they are all men of war.

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