Lamentations 4:8
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin sticks to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
American King James Version (AKJV)
Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin sticks to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
American Standard Version (ASV)
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.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
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.
Webster's Revision
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.
English Revised Version (ERV)
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.
Definitions for Lamentations 4:8
Barnes's Lamentations 4:8 Bible Commentary
Their visage ... - Their form (their whole person, see 1 Samuel 28:14)... as in the margin. See Job 30:30.
It is withered, it is become like a stick - Or, It has become dry like a piece of wood.
Wesley's Lamentations 4:8 Bible Commentary
4:8 Not known - So that those who before knew them, do not know them now.
