Lamentations 4:8
Lamentations · Old Testament · Chapter 4
“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
What Does Lamentations 4:8 Mean?
Lamentations 4:8 is found in the book of Lamentations, chapter 4, verse 8 of the Old Testament. This verse connects to 20 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.
Cross-References (20)
These passages are connected to Lamentations 4:8 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.
Job 30:30“My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.”Lamentations 5:10“Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.”Job 19:20“My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.”Psalms 102:3“For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.”Psalms 102:5“By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.”Jeremiah 14:2“Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.”Psalms 119:83“For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.”Song of Solomon 1:6“Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother’s children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.”Joel 2:6“Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.”Ruth 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?”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.”Job 14:20“Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.”Job 30:17“My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.”Job 33:21“His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.”Psalms 32:4“For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.”Psalms 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.”Psalms 102:11“My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.”Isaiah 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:”Lamentations 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.”Nahum 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.”
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