Parallel Verses
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.
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.
Holman Bible
ח Khet
they are not recognized in the streets.
Their skin has shriveled on their bones;
it has become dry like wood.
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 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 Her Nazarites were purer than snow, whiter than milk; they were redder of bone than corals; their cuttings as lapis lazuli, azure blue. 8 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. 9 Better are the ones slain by the sword than the ones slain by hunger; those who pine away, pierced because the fruits of my fields failed.
Names
Cross References
Job 30:30
My skin is black on me, and my bones are burned with heat.
Psalm 102:3-5
For my days go up like smoke, and my bones glow like a firebrand.
Lamentations 5:10
Our skin is hot like an oven because of the fever heat of famine.
Job 19:20
My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped with the skin of my teeth.
Psalm 119:83
For I am like a wineskin in the smoke; I do not forget Your Precepts.
Ruth 1:19-20
And both of them went until they came to Bethlehem. And it happened when they had come to Bethlehem, all the city was moved about them, and they said, Is this Naomi?
Job 2:12
And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and did not know him, they lifted up their voice and wept. And each one tore his robe, and they sprinkled dust upon their heads toward Heaven.
Job 30:17-19
My bones are pierced in me in the night; and my gnawings never lie down.
Job 33:21
His flesh wastes away, not seen; and his bones laid bare; they were not seen.
Psalm 32:4
For by day and by night Your hand was heavy on me; my sap is turned into the droughts of summer. Selah.
Psalm 38:3
There is no soundness in my flesh because of Your anger; nor rest in my bones because of my sin.
Psalm 102:11
My days are like a shadow stretched out; and I wither like grass.
Isaiah 52:14
Just as many were astonished at You (so much was the disfigurement from man, His appearance and His form from the sons of mankind);
Lamentations 4:1-2
How the gold has become dim; the fine gold has changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.
Joel 2:6
Before their face the people shall be much pained; all faces shall gather blackness.
Nahum 2:10
She is empty and void and waste; and the heart melts, and the knees knock, and trembling is on all the loins; and all their faces collect heat.