Lamentations 4:8

Geneva Bible (1560)

Nowe their visage is blacker then a cole: they can not knowe them in the streetes: their skinne cleaueth to their bones: it is withered like a stocke.

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  • Job 30:30 : 30 My skinne is blacke vpon me, & my bones are burnt with heate.
  • Ps 102:3-5 : 3 For my dayes are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burnt like an herthe. 4 Mine heart is smitten and withereth like grasse, because I forgate to eate my bread. 5 For the voyce of my groning my bones doe cleaue to my skinne.
  • Lam 5:10 : 10 Our skinne was blacke like as an ouen because of the terrible famine.
  • Ps 119:83 : 83 For I am like a bottell in the smoke: yet doe I not forget thy statutes.
  • Job 19:20 : 20 My bone cleaueth to my skinne and to my flesh, and I haue escaped with the skinne of my teeth.
  • Job 30:17-19 : 17 It pearceth my bones in the night, and my sinewes take no rest. 18 For the great vehemencie is my garment changed, which compasseth me about as the colar of my coate. 19 He hath cast me into the myre, and I am become like ashes and dust.
  • Ruth 1:19-20 : 19 So they went both vntill they came to Beth-lehem: and when they were come to Beth-lehem, it was noysed of them through all the citie, and they said, Is not this Naomi? 20 And she answered them, Call me not Naomi, but call me Mara: for the Almightie hath giuen me much bitternes.
  • Job 2:12 : 12 So when they lift vp their eyes a farre off, they knewe him not: therefore they lift vp their voyces and wept, and euery one of them rent his garment, and sprinkled dust vpon their heads toward the heauen.
  • Job 33:21 : 21 His flesh faileth that it can not be seene, and his bones which were not seene, clatter.
  • Ps 32:4 : 4 (For thine hand is heauie vpon me, day and night: and my moysture is turned into ye drought of summer. Selah)
  • Ps 38:3 : 3 There is nothing sound in my flesh, because of thine anger: neither is there rest in my bones because of my sinne.
  • Isa 52:14 : 14 As many were astonied at thee (his visage was so deformed of men, and his forme of the sonnes of men)
  • Lam 4:1-2 : 1 How is the golde become so dimme? the most fine golde is changed, and the stones of the Sanctuarie are scattered in the corner of euery streete. 2 The noble men of Zion coparable to fine golde, howe are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, euen the worke of the handes of the potter!
  • Ps 102:11 : 11 My dayes are like a shadowe that fadeth, and I am withered like grasse.
  • Joel 2:6 : 6 Before his face shal the people tremble: all faces shal gather blackenesse.
  • Nah 2:10 : 10 She is emptie and voyde and waste, and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and sorowe is in all loynes, and the faces of the all gather blackenesse.

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    9Wee gate our bread with the perill of our liues, because of the sword of the wildernesse.

    10Our skinne was blacke like as an ouen because of the terrible famine.

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  • Job 30:30
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    30My skinne is blacke vpon me, & my bones are burnt with heate.

  • Lam 4:5-7
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    5They that did feede delicately, perish in the streetes: they that were brought vp in skarlet, embrace the dongue.

    6For the iniquitie of the daughter of my people is become greater then the sinne of Sodom, that was destroyed as in a moment, & none pitched campes against her.

    7Her Nazarites were purer then the snowe, & whiter then ye milke: they were more ruddie in bodie, then the redde precious stones; they were like polished saphir.

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    21His flesh faileth that it can not be seene, and his bones which were not seene, clatter.

  • Joel 2:6
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    6Before his face shal the people tremble: all faces shal gather blackenesse.

  • Job 6:16-17
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    16Which are blackish with yee, and wherein the snowe is hid.

    17But in time they are dryed vp with heate and are consumed: and when it is hote they faile out of their places,

  • Song 1:5-6
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    5I am blacke, O daughters of Ierusalem, but comely, as the tentes of Kedar, and as the curtaines of Salomon.

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    9They that be slaine with the sword are better, then they that are killed with hunger: for they fade away as they were striken through for the fruites of the fielde.

  • Nah 2:10
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    10She is emptie and voyde and waste, and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and sorowe is in all loynes, and the faces of the all gather blackenesse.

  • Ps 102:5
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    5For the voyce of my groning my bones doe cleaue to my skinne.

  • Song 5:11
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    11His head is as fine golde, his lockes curled, and blacke as a rauen.

  • Ezek 7:18
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    18They shall also girde them selues with sackecloth, and feare shall couer them, and shame shalbe vpon all faces, & baldnes vpon their heads.

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    2But they hate the good, and loue the euill: they plucke off their skinnes from them, & their flesh from their bones.

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    7Their eyes stande out for fatnesse: they haue more then heart can wish.

  • Isa 3:9
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    9The triall of their countenance testifieth against them, yea, they declare their sinnes as Sodom, they hide them not. Wo be vnto their soules: for they haue rewarded euil vnto themselues.

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    16They digge through houses in the darke, which they marked for themselues in the daye: they knowe not the light.

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    21I am sore vexed for the hurt of ye daughter of my people: I am heauie, & astonishment hath taken me.

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    4My flesh and my skinne hath he caused to waxe olde, and he hath broken my bones.

  • Job 30:3
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    3For pouertie and famine they were solitary, fleeing into the wildernes, which is darke, desolate and waste.

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    5My flesh is clothed with wormes and filthinesse of the dust: my skinne is rent, and become horrible.

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    14They haue wandred as blinde men in the streetes, and they were polluted with blood, so that they would not touch their garments.

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    6From the sole of the foote vnto the head, there is nothing whole therein, but wounds, and swelling, and sores full of corruption: they haue not bene wrapped, nor bound vp, nor mollified with oyle.

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    14Beholde, they shall be as stubble: the fire shall burne them: they shal not deliuer their owne liues from the power of the flame: there shalbe no coles to warme at, nor light to sit by.

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    7He maketh my vine waste, & pilleth off the barke of my figge tree: he maketh it bare, and casteth it downe: ye branches therof are made white.

  • Job 13:12
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    12Your memories may be compared vnto ashes, and your bodyes to bodyes of clay.

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    17Because that bread and water shall faile, they shalbe astonied one with another, and shall consume away for their iniquitie.

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    10They cause him to go naked without clothing, and take the glening from the hungrie.

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    30And shall cause their voyce to be heard against thee, and shal cry bitterly, and shal cast dust vpon their heads, & wallow theselues in the ashes.

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    20They be destroyed from the morning vnto the euening: they perish for euer, without regarde.

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    14Their soule dyeth in youth, and their life among the whoremongers.

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    16Whose quiuer is as an open sepulchre: they are all very strong.

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    9Strangers haue deuoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray heares are here and there vpon him, yet he knoweth not.