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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 4:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Zion Is Punished
7 Her princes were purer than snow, whiter than milk. Their bodies were more ruddy than rubies, their beards like the color of precious stones. 8 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. 9 Those who die by the sword are better off than those who die from starvation, who slowly waste away like those pierced through for lack of food from the fields.
Names
Cross References
Job 30:30
My skin turns black all over me; and my bones seem burned from the heat.
Psalm 102:3-5
For my days are vanishing like smoke; my bones are charred as in a fireplace.
Lamentations 5:10
Our skin blisters as from an oven, due to ravaging blasts of the famine.
Job 19:20
I'm a pile of skin and bones; I have barely escaped by the skin of my teeth."
Psalm 119:83
Though I have become like a water skin dried by smoke, I have not forgotten your statutes.
Ruth 1:19-20
So they continued on until they reached Bethlehem. Now when the two of them arrived in Bethlehem, the entire town got excited at the news of their arrival and they asked one another, "Can this be Naomi?"
Job 2:12
Observing him from a distance, at first they didn't even recognize him, so they raised their voices and burst into tears. They each ripped their robes, threw ashes into the air on their heads,
Job 30:17-19
The night racks my bones; and the pain that gnaws on me will not rest.
Job 33:21
His flesh wastes away; his bones, which once couldn't be seen, are visible.
Psalm 32:4
For your hand was heavy upon me day and night; my strength was exhausted as in a summer drought. Interlude
Psalm 38:3
My body is unhealthy due to your anger, and my bones have no rest due to my sin.
Psalm 102:11
My life is like a declining shadow, and I am withering like a plant.
Isaiah 52:14
Just as many were astonished at you so was he marred in his appearance, more than any human, and his form beyond that of human semblance
Lamentations 4:1-2
How tarnished the gold has become, the finest gold debased! Sacred stones have been scattered at every street corner.
Joel 2:6
The people are terrified in their presence; every face grows pale.
Nahum 2:10
Nineveh is devastated, deserted, and desolate. Her heart melts, her knees knock. Every stomach is upset, every face grows pale.