Lamentations 4:8 — Bible Verse (KJV)
“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.”
Lamentations 4:8 — King James Version (KJV), 1611
Lamentations 4:8 in 6 Bible Translations
Read Lamentations 4:8 in the King James Version (KJV) and 5 other free, public-domain translations side by side.
Lamentations 4:8 WEB — World English Bible (2000)
“Their appearance 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 wood.”
Lamentations 4:8 — World English Bible
Lamentations 4:8 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)
“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. ”
Lamentations 4:8 — American Standard Version
Lamentations 4:8 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)
“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.”
Lamentations 4:8 — Young's Literal Translation
Lamentations 4:8 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)
“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. ”
Lamentations 4:8 — Darby Translation
Lamentations 4:8 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)
“Nowe their visage is blacker then a cole: they can not knowe them in the streetes: their skinne cleaueth to their bones: it is withered like a stocke.”
Lamentations 4:8 — Geneva Bible
Lamentations 4:8 in Context — Lamentations 4
6 For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.
7 Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire:
8 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.
9 They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.
10 The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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What Does Lamentations 4:8 Mean?
Lamentations 4:8 is a verse from the Book of Lamentations, part of the Old Testament. It appears in Lamentations chapter 4. Use The Living Sword's word-by-word study mode to explore every word in the original Hebrew and Aramaic.
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