Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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 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.
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 more ruddy in body than rubies, their figure was as sapphire. 8 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. 9 The slain with the sword are happier than the slain with hunger; for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.
Names
Cross References
Job 30:30
My skin is become black and falleth off me, and my bones are parched with heat.
Psalm 102:3-5
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as a firebrand.
Lamentations 5:10
Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the burning heat of the famine.
Job 19:20
My bones cleave to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
Psalm 119:83
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; I do not forget thy statutes.
Ruth 1:19-20
And they two went until they came to Bethlehem. And it came to pass, when they came to Bethlehem, that all the city was moved about them, and the women said, Is this Naomi?
Job 2:12
And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice and wept. And they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward the heavens.
Job 30:17-19
The night pierceth through my bones and detacheth them from me, and my gnawing pains take no rest:
Job 33:21
His flesh is consumed away from view, and his bones that were not seen stick out;
Psalm 32:4
For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me; my moisture was turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
Psalm 38:3
There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignation; no peace in my bones, because of my sin.
Psalm 102:11
My days are like a lengthened-out shadow, and I, I am withered like grass.
Isaiah 52:14
As many were astonished at thee his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the children of men
Lamentations 4:1-2
How is the gold become dim! the most pure gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary poured out at the top of all the streets!
Joel 2:6
Before them the peoples are in anguish: all faces turn pale.
Nahum 2:10
She is empty, and void, and waste; and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and writhing pain is in all loins, and all their faces grow pale.