Lamentations 4:8 meaning and explanation
But now their appearance is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as a stick.
Lamentations 4:8, Berean Standard Bible
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The speaker is the poet of Lamentations, mourning Jerusalem after the Babylonian siege and destruction of the city. In verses 7 and 8 he contrasts the city's leaders as they once looked, radiant and healthy, with what the famine has done to them.
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