Lamentations 4:8 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Their visage is blackerb 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 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Their visage ... - Their form (their whole person, see 1 Samuel 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 o...
Lamentations 4:8 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Their (e) 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. (e) They who were before most in God's favo...
Lamentations 4:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 4. The Fourth Lament. This has less literary finish than Lamentations 4:3 , and it has also less spiritual value. It lacks much of the saints whom one seems to see in Lamentations 4:...
Lamentations 4:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

known . recognized.
Lamentations 4:8 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Now, on the contrary, he says that the Nazarites were become withered, that their skin clave to their bones, that, in short, they were so deformed that they could not be known, not only in o...
Lamentations 4:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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. Their visage is blacker than a coal - or...
Lamentations 4:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Zion's former Glory contrasted with her present Humiliation In this fourth dirge the poet describes the miseries of the various classes in the sack of Jerusalem, concluding with a warning to Edom....
Lamentations 4:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Their visage is blacker... — We look, as it were, on the two pictures: the bloom and beauty of health, the wan, worn, spectral looks of starvation.
Lamentations 4:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CONTRASTS Lamentations 4:1-12 IN form the fourth elegy is slightly different from each of its predecessors. Following the characteristic plan of the Book of Lamentations, it is an acrostic of t...
Lamentations 4:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The fourth poem is for the most part a dirge of desolation, which nevertheless ends in a song of hope. Jeremiah first described the disaster in Zion, declaring that it all arose as the result of the...
Lamentations 4:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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. The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they...
Lamentations 4:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Their visage is blacker than a coal ,.... Or, "darker than blackness"; or, "dark through blackness" y; by reason of the famine, and because of grief and trouble for themselves and their friends, whi...
Lamentations 4:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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. Ver. 8. Their visage is blacker than a coal....
Lamentations 4:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Her Nazarites were purer than snow It seems the word, נזיריה, ought not to be translated here Nazarites , or those who were separated by a vow to God; but princes , or chief men: so Waterland...
Lamentations 4:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Desolate Condition of Jerusalem; Effects of Famine in Jerusalem; Destruction of Jerusalem. B. C. 588....
Lamentations 4:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

They that in the prosperity of the city were fair, plump, and ruddy, look now black for want of fit nourishment, and through sorrow and grief; insomuch that those who before knew them by their counte...
Lamentations 4:8 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Sad Condition Of The People Of Jerusalem Due To The Anger Of YHWH ( Lamentations 4:1-11 ). Lamentations 4:1 (Aleph) How is the gold become dim! How is the most pure gold changed! The (pre...
Lamentations 4:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

EXEGETICAL NOTES. — (ג). Lamentations 4:3 . Beasts of prey show affection for their brood. Even the jackals draw out —present— the breast; a familiar fact testifying that they were true to thei...
Lamentations 4:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Lamentations 4:1 . How is the gold, זהב zahab, so called because of its superior lustre to other metals, now become dim. Gold does not oxidize, and scarcely receives a tarnish; yet the rulers...
Lamentations 4:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

THE SUFFERINGS OF JERUSALEM ; NO CLASS IS EXEMPT . EDOM 'S TRIUMPHING . EXPOSITION Lamentations 4:1 How is the gold become dim!… the stones of the sanctuary, etc. "Alas f...
Lamentations 4:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Jerusalem's Affliction a Punishment for her Guilt
Lamentations 4:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 52:14 ; Job 19:20 ; Job 2:12 ; Job 30:17-19 ; Job 30:30 ; Job 33:21 ; Joel 2:6 ; Lamentations 5:10 ; Lamentations 4:1 ; Lamentations 4:2 ; Nahum 2:10 ; Psalms 102:11 ; Psalms 102:...
Lamentations 4:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Not known — So that those who before knew them, do not know them now.

Lamentations 4:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Lamentations 4:8 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Lamentations 4:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 4:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Lamentations 4:8 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 4:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Lamentations 4:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Lamentations 4:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 4:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Lamentations 4:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Lamentations 4:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Lamentations 4:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Lamentations 4:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Lamentations 4:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Lamentations 4:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Lamentations 4:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Lamentations 4:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Lamentations 4:8 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 4:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Lamentations 4:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Lamentations 4:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Lamentations 4:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Lamentations 4:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Lamentations 4:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes