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Lamentations 4:8

8 Now their appearance is blacker than soot;

They go unrecognized in the streets;

gTheir skin clings to their bones,

It has become as dry as wood.

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Lamentations 4:8 — The New International Version (NIV)

But now they are blacker than soot;

they are not recognized in the streets.

Their skin has shriveled on their bones;

it has become as dry as a stick.

Lamentations 4:8 — English Standard Version (ESV)

Now their face is blacker than soot;

they are not recognized in the streets;

their skin has shriveled on their bones;

it has become as dry as wood.

Lamentations 4:8 — King James Version (KJV 1900)

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 — New Living Translation (NLT)

But now their faces are blacker than soot.

No one recognizes them in the streets.

Their skin sticks to their bones;

it is as dry and hard as wood.

Lamentations 4:8 — New Century Version (NCV)

But now they are blacker than coal,

and no one recognizes them in the streets.

Their skin hangs on their bones;

it is as dry as wood.

Lamentations 4:8 — 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.

Lamentations 4:8 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)

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 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)

Their faces are ⸤now⸥ blacker than soot. 

No one recognizes them on the streets. 

Their skin has shriveled on their bones. 

It has become as dry as bark. 

Lamentations 4:8 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

Now they appear darker than soot;

they are not recognized in the streets.

Their skin has shriveled on their bones;

it has become dry like wood.

Lamentations 4:8 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

Now their visage is blacker than soot;

they are not recognized in the streets.

Their skin has shriveled on their bones;

it has become as dry as wood.

Lamentations 4:8 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)

Now their appearance is blacker than soot,

they are not recognized in the streets;

their skin has shriveled on their bones,

it has become dry like wood.

Lamentations 4:8 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)

But now they are blacker than coal.

No one even recognizes them in the streets.

Their skin is wrinkled on their bones.

It has become as dry as a stick.

Lamentations 4:8 — New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (NASB95)

Their appearance is blacker than soot,

They are not recognized in the streets;

Their skin is shriveled on their bones,

It is withered, it has become like wood.


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