THEOSISLamentations 4:8Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Heth. Their face is now made blacker than coals, and they are not known in the streets: their skin hath stuck to their bones, it is withered, and is become like wood.
חָשַׁ֤ךְ מִשְּׁחוֹר֙ תָּֽאֳרָ֔ם לֹ֥א נִכְּר֖וּ בַּחוּצ֑וֹת צָפַ֤ד עוֹרָם֙ עַל־עַצְמָ֔ם יָבֵ֖שׁ הָיָ֥ה כָעֵֽץ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Ps 102 (101):3
- Ps 102 (101):5
- Lam 5:10Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.
- Job 30:30My skin is become black upon me, and my bones are dried up with heat.
- Ps 119 (118):83
- Job 19:20The flesh being consumed, my bone hath cleaved to my skin, and nothing but lips are left about my teeth.
- Job 2:12And when they had lifted up their eyes afar off, they knew him not, and crying out, they wept, and rending their garments, they sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.
- Joel 2:6At their presence the people shall be in grievous pains: all faces shall be made like a kettle.