Lamentations 4:8
“Here is considered the shame following from their knowledge, as to a change of color, or complexion. As expressed: "Now their visage is blacker than soot, they are not recognized in the streets; their skin has shriveled upon their bones, it has become as dry as wood." That is, due to a deprivation as to a shriveling o…”
Source: Septuagint
8Their countenance is become blacker than smoke; They are not known in the streets: Their skin has cloven to their bones; They are withered, they are become as a stick.
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6And the iniquity of the daughter of my people has been increased Beyond the iniquities of Sodom, The city that was overthrown very suddenly, And none labored against her with their hands.
7Her Nazirites were made purer than snow, They were whiter than milk, They were purified as with fire, Their polishing was superior to sapphire stone.
— Lamentations 4:8 —
9The slain with the sword were better Than they that were slain with hunger: They have departed, Pierced through from want of the fruits of the field.
10The hands of tenderhearted women Have sodden their own children: They became meat for them In the destruction of the daughter of my people.