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Lam 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.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

visage		Lam 5:10; Job 30:17-19,30; Joe 2:6; Nah 2:10
blacker than a coal		"Heb. darker than blackness. Or, as Dr. Blayney renders, ""duskier than the dawn;"" shachar signifying ""the dawn of the day, when it is neither light nor dark, but between both, at which time objects are not easily distinguished."""
they		Lam 4:1,2; Rth 1:19,20; Job 2:12; Isa 52:14
their skin		Job 19:20; Job 33:21; Psa 32:4; Psa 38:3; Psa 102:3-5,11; Psa 119:83

Correlating Passages

visage

	Lam 5:10	Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
	Job 30:17	My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
	Job 30:18	By the great force [of my disease] is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
	Job 30:19	He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
	Job 30:30	My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
	Joe 2:6	Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.
	Nah 2:10	She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain [is] in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.

they

	Lam 4:1	How is the gold become dim! [how] is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.
	Lam 4:2	The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
	Rth 1:19	So they two went until they came to Bethlehem. And it came to pass, when they were come to Bethlehem, that all the city was moved about them, and they said, [Is] this Naomi?
	Rth 1:20	And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.
	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 heaven.
	Isa 52:14	As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:

their skin

	Job 19:20	My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
	Job 33:21	His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones [that] were not seen stick out.
	Psa 32:4	For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
	Psa 38:3	[There is] no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither [is there any] rest in my bones because of my sin.
	Psa 102:3	For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
	Psa 102:4	My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
	Psa 102:5	By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
	Psa 102:11	My days [are] like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
	Psa 119:83	For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; [yet] do I not forget thy statutes.

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Scott, Thomas. "Lamentations 4:8," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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