Yēlìmǐāigē 4:8

8 Xiànzaì tāmende miànmào bǐ méi tàn gèng hēi , yǐzhì zaì jiē shang wú rén rènshi . tāmende pí fū jǐn tiē gútou , kū gān rútóng gǎo mù .

Yēlìmǐāigē 4:8 Meaning and Commentary

Lamentations 4:8

Their visage is blacker than a coal
Or, "darker than blackness"; or, "dark through blackness" ^F25; by reason of the famine, and because of grief and trouble for themselves and their friends, which changed their complexions, countenances, and skins; they that looked before as pure as snow, as white as milk, as clear as pearls, as polished as sapphire, now as black as charcoal, as blackness itself: they are not known in the streets;
not taken notice of in a distinguished manner; no respect shown them as they walk the streets, as used to be; nay, their countenances were so altered, and their apparel so sordid, as not to be known by their friends, when they met them in public: their skin cleaveth to their bones;
have nothing but skin and bone, who used to be plump and fat: it is withered, it is become like a stick;
the skin wrinkled and shrivelled up, the flesh being gone; and the bone became like a stick, or a dry piece of wood, its moisture and marrow being dried up.

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FOOTNOTES:

F25 (rwxvm Kvx) "obscurior ipsa nigredine", Tigurine version; "magis quam nigredo vel carbo", Vatablus; "prae caligines", Calvin; "ex nigredine", Piscator.

Yēlìmǐāigē 4:8 In-Context

6 Dōu yīn wǒ zhòng mín de zuìniè bǐ Suǒduōmǎ de zuì hái dà . Suǒduōmǎ suīrán wú rén jiā shǒu yú tā , háishì zhuǎn yǎn zhī jiān beì qīngfù .

7 Xī \'ān de guìzhòu sùlái bǐ xuĕ chún jìng , bǐ nǎi gēng bái . tāmende shēntǐ bǐ hóng bǎo yù ( huò zuò shān hú ) gēng hóng , xiàng guāng rùn de lánbǎoshí yíyàng .

8 Xiànzaì tāmende miànmào bǐ méi tàn gèng hēi , yǐzhì zaì jiē shang wú rén rènshi . tāmende pí fū jǐn tiē gútou , kū gān rútóng gǎo mù .

9 È sǐ de bù rú beì dāo shā de , yīnwei zhè shì quē le tiánjiān de tǔchǎn , jiù shēntǐ shuāi ruò , jiànjiàn xiāomiè .

10 Cíbēi de fùrén , dāng wǒ zhòng mín beì huǐmiè de shíhou , qīn shǒu zhǔ zìjǐ de érnǚ zuòwéi shíwù .