Lamentations 4:8 — Bible Verse (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.”
Lamentations 4:8 — King James Version (KJV), 1611
Lamentations 4:8 in 6 Bible Translations
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Lamentations 4:8 WEB — World English Bible (2000)
“Their appearance is blacker than a coal. They are not known in the streets. Their skin clings to their bones. It is withered. It has become like wood.”
Lamentations 4:8 — World English Bible
Lamentations 4:8 ASV — 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.”
Lamentations 4:8 — American Standard Version
Lamentations 4:8 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)
“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 — Young's Literal Translation
Lamentations 4:8 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)
“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.”
Lamentations 4:8 — Darby Translation
Lamentations 4:8 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)
“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.”
Lamentations 4:8 — Geneva Bible
Lamentations 4:8 in Context — Lamentations 4
6 Y aumentóse la iniquidad de la hija de mi pueblo más que el pecado de Sodoma, que fué trastornada en un momento, y no asentaron sobre ella compañías.
7 Sus Nazareos fueron blancos más que la nieve, más lustrosos que la leche, su compostura más rubicunda que los rubíes, más bellos que el zafiro:
8 Oscura más que la negrura es la forma de ellos; no los conocen por las calles: su piel está pegada á sus huesos, seca como un palo.
9 Más dichosos fueron los muertos á cuchillo que los muertos del hambre; porque éstos murieron poco á poco por falta de los frutos de la tierra.
10 Las manos de las mujeres piadosas cocieron á sus hijos; fuéronles comida en el quebrantamiento de la hija de mi pueblo.
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What Does Lamentations 4:8 Mean?
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