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 Pois maior é o castigo da filha de meu povo do que o [do] pecado de Sodoma, Que foi transtornada em um momento, e não assentaram sobre ela companhias.
7 Seus nazireus eram mais alvos que a neve, mais brancos que o leite. Seus corpos eram mais avermelhados que rubis, [e] mais polidos que a safira;
8 [Mas agora] sua aparência se escureceu mais que o carvão; não são mais reconhecidos nas ruas; sua pele está apegada a seus ossos, ficou seca como um pau.
9 Mais felizes foram os mortos pela espada do que os mortos pela fome; porque estes se abatem traspassados pela [falta] dos frutos do campo.
10 As mãos das mulheres compassivas cozeram a seus filhos; serviram-lhes de comida na destruição da filha de meu povo.
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What Does Lamentations 4:8 Mean?
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