Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
ח Khet
they are not recognized in the streets.
Their skin has shriveled on their bones;
it has become dry like wood.
New American Standard Bible
They are not recognized in the streets;
Their
It is withered, it has become like wood.
King James Version
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.
International Standard Version
Now their faces are blacker than coal; they are unrecognized in the streets. Their skin clings to their bones; it has become dry like a stick.
A Conservative Version
Their visage 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 a stick.
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified
Their appearance is [now] blacker than soot [because of the prolonged famine];
They are not recognized in the streets;
Their skin clings to their bones;
It is withered, and it has become [dry] like wood.
Bible in Basic English
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.
Darby Translation
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.
Julia Smith Translation
Their form dark above blackness; they were not known in the streets: their skin adhered to their bones; it was dried up, it was as wood.
King James 2000
Their appearance is now blacker than coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaves to their bones; it is withered, it has become like a dry stick.
Lexham Expanded Bible
[Now] their appearance is blacker than soot, they are not recognized in the streets; their skin has shriveled on their bones, it has become dry like wood.
Modern King James verseion
Their appearance is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets; their skin has shriveled on their bones; it is dried up; it has become like wood.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
{Khet} But now their faces are very black: Insomuch, that thou shouldest not know them in the streets. Their skin cleaveth to their bones; It is withered, and become like a dry stock.
NET Bible
(Khet) Now their appearance is darker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it is dried up, like tree bark.
New Heart English Bible
They appear darker than soot; they are not known in the streets. Their skin cleaves to their bones; it is withered and has become as dry as a stick.
The Emphasized Bible
Darker than a coal, is their visage, They are not known in the streets - Their skin shrivelleth on their bones, is withered, become like a stick.
Webster
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.
World English Bible
Their appearance is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: Their skin clings to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
Youngs Literal Translation
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.
Interlinear
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 4:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Zion Is Punished
7
ז Zayin
whiter than milk;
their bodies
their appearance like sapphire.
they are not recognized in the streets.
Their skin has shriveled on their bones;
it has become dry like wood.
than those slain by hunger,
who waste away, pierced with pain
because the fields lack produce.
Names
Cross References
Job 30:30
and my bones burn with fever.
Psalm 102:3-5
and my bones burn like a furnace.
Lamentations 5:10
from the ravages of hunger.
Job 19:20
I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
Psalm 119:83
I do not forget Your statutes.
Ruth 1:19-20
The two of them traveled until they came to Bethlehem. When they entered Bethlehem, the whole town was excited about their arrival
Job 2:12
When they looked from a distance, they could barely recognize him. They wept aloud,
Job 30:17-19
but my gnawing pains never rest.
Job 33:21
and his unseen bones stick out.
Psalm 32:4
my strength was drained
as in the summer’s heat.
Psalm 38:3
because of Your indignation;
there is no strength
because of my sin.
Psalm 102:11
and I wither away like grass.
Isaiah 52:14
His appearance was so disfigured
that He did not look like a man,
and His form did not resemble a human being—
Lamentations 4:1-2
the fine gold become dull!
The stones of the temple
at the corner of every street.
Joel 2:6
all faces turn pale.
Nahum 2:10
Hearts melt,
knees tremble,
loins shake,
every face grows pale!