Lamentations 4:8

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Summary

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.

Visage

Their skin

Bible References

Visage

Our skin has become as hot as an oven,
Because of the burning heat of famine.

“At night it pierces my bones within me,
And my gnawing pains take no rest.

Before them the people are in anguish;
All faces turn pale.

She is emptied! Yes, she is desolate and waste!

Hearts are melting and knees knocking!

Also anguish is in the whole body
And all their faces are grown pale!

Their skin

“My bone clings to my skin and my flesh,
And I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.

“His flesh wastes away from sight,
And his bones which were not seen stick out.

For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me;
My

vitality was drained away as with the fever heat of summer.

Selah.

There is no soundness in my flesh because of Your indignation;
There is no health in my bones because of my sin.

For my days have been consumed in smoke,
And my bones have been scorched like a hearth.

Though I have become like a wineskin in the smoke,
I do not forget Your statutes.