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.
Their skin
Bible References
Visage
Lamentations 5:10
Our skin is hot as an oven due to a fever from hunger.
Job 30:17
Night pierces my bones; my gnawing pains never cease.
Joel 2:6
People writhe in fear when they see them. All of their faces turn pale with fright.
Nahum 2:10
Destruction, devastation, and desolation! Their hearts faint, their knees tremble, each stomach churns, each face turns pale!
Their skin
Job 19:20
My bones stick to my skin and my flesh; I have escaped alive with only the skin of my teeth.
Job 33:21
His flesh wastes away from sight, and his bones, which were not seen, are easily visible.
Psalm 32:4
For day and night you tormented me; you tried to destroy me in the intense heat of summer. (Selah)
Psalm 38:3
My whole body is sick because of your judgment; I am deprived of health because of my sin.
Psalm 102:3
For my days go up in smoke, and my bones are charred like a fireplace.
Psalm 119:83
For I am like a wineskin dried up in smoke. I do not forget your statutes.