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 an oven
from the ravages of hunger.
Job 30:17
Night pierces my bones,
but my gnawing pains never rest.
Joel 2:6
Nations writhe in horror before them;
all faces turn pale.
Nahum 2:10
Desolation, decimation, devastation!
Hearts melt,
knees tremble,
loins shake,
every face grows pale!

Their skin

Job 19:20
My skin and my flesh cling to my bones;
I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
Job 33:21
His flesh wastes away to nothing,
and his unseen bones stick out.
Psalm 32:4
For day and night Your hand was heavy on me;
my strength was drained
as in the summer’s heat.Selah
Psalm 38:3
There is no health in my body
because of Your indignation;
there is no strength in my bones
because of my sin.
Psalm 102:3
For my days vanish like smoke,
and my bones burn like a furnace.
Psalm 119:83
Though I have become like a wineskin dried by smoke,
I do not forget Your statutes.

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