Lamentations 4:8
“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.”
King James Version (KJV)
🌐 Lamentations 4:8 in 8 Translations
King James Version (KJV)English
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.
American Standard Version (ASV)English
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.
Open English Bible (OEB)English
Elberfelder Bibel (ELB)Deutsch
Dunkler als Schwärze ist ihr Aussehen, man erkennt sie nicht auf den Straßen; ihre Haut klebt an ihrem Gebein, ist dürr geworden wie Holz.
Reina-Valera (RV)Español
Oscura más que la negrura es la forma de ellos; no los conocen por las calles: su piel está pegada á sus huesos, seca como un palo.
Bíblia Livre (BL)Português
Mas agora sua aparência se escureceu mais que o carvão; não são mais reconhecidos nas ruas; sua pele está apegada a seus ossos, ficou seca como um pau.
Nova Versão (NVA)Português
Agora a sua aparência escureceu mais que a fuligem, e já estão irreconhecíveis nas ruas, pois a sua pele colou-se aos seus ossos e está seca como a lenha.
📖 Lamentations 4:8 in Context
6For 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.
7Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire:
8Their 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.
9They 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.
10The 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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