Lamentations 4:8 (KJV)

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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

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Cross-references

visage. La 5:10 Job 30:17-19 Job 30:30 Joe 2:6 Na 2:10

they. La 4:1 La 4:2 Ru 1:19 Ru 1:20 Job 2:12 Isa 52:14

their skin. Job 19:20 Job 33:21 Ps 32:4 Ps 38:3 Ps 102:3-5 Ps 102:11 Ps 119:83

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."

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