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Selected Verse: Lamentations 4:8 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| La 4:8 |
Strong Concordance |
Their visage [08389] is blacker [02821] than a coal [07815]; they are not known [05234] in the streets [02351]: their skin [05785] cleaveth [06821] to their bones [06106]; it is withered [03001], it is become like a stick [06086]. |
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King James |
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. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
blacker than . . . coal--or, "than blackness" itself (Joe 2:6; Nah 2:10).
like a stick--as withered as a dry stick. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Their visage ... - Their form (their whole person, see Sa1 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. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Not known - So that those who before knew them, do not know them now. |
10 She is empty [0950], and void [04003], and waste [01110]: and the heart [03820] melteth [04549], and the knees [01290] smite together [06375], and much pain [02479] is in all loins [04975], and the faces [06440] of them all gather [06908] blackness [06289].
6 Before their face [06440] the people [05971] shall be much pained [02342]: all faces [06440] shall gather [06908] blackness [06289].
30 My skin [05785] is black [07835] upon me, and my bones [06106] are burned [02787] with heat [02721].
14 And he said [0559] unto her, What form [08389] is he of? And she said [0559], An old [02205] man [0376] cometh up [05927]; and he is covered [05844] with a mantle [04598]. And Saul [07586] perceived [03045] that it was Samuel [08050], and he stooped [06915] with his face [0639] to the ground [0776], and bowed [07812] himself.