Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

Bible References

Visage

Lamentations 5:10

Our skin is as hot as [the heat of] an oven
Because of the burning heat of [the fever of] famine.
Job 30:17

“My bones are pierced [with aching] in the night season,
And the pains that gnaw me take no rest.
Joel 2:6

Before them the people are in anguish;
All faces become pale [with terror].
Nahum 2:10

She is emptied! She is desolate and waste!
Hearts melting [in fear] and knees knocking!
Anguish is in the whole body,
And the faces of all grow pale!

Their skin

Job 19:20

“My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh,
And I have escaped [death] by the skin of my teeth.
Job 33:21

“His flesh is so wasted away that it cannot be seen,
And his bones which were not seen now stick out.
Psalm 32:4

For day and night Your hand [of displeasure] was heavy upon me;
My energy (vitality, strength) was drained away as with the burning heat of summer. Selah.
Psalm 38:3

There is no soundness in my flesh because of Your indignation;
There is no health in my bones because of my sin.
Psalm 102:3

For my days have vanished in smoke,
And my bones have been scorched like a hearth.
Psalm 119:83

For I have become like a wineskin [blackened and shriveled] in the smoke [in which it hangs],
Yet I do not forget Your statutes.