Lamentaciones 4:8

8 Chet: Oscura más que la negrura es la forma de ellos; no los conocen por las calles. Su piel está pegada a sus huesos, seco como un palo

Lamentaciones 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.

Lamentaciones 4:8 In-Context

6 Vau: Y se aumentó la iniquidad de la hija de mi pueblo más que el pecado de Sodoma, que fue trastornada en un momento, y no asentaron sobre ella compañías

7 Zain: Sus Nazareos fueron blancos más que la nieve, más resplandecientes que la leche; su compostura más encendida que las piedras preciosas cortadas del zafiro

8 Chet: Oscura más que la negrura es la forma de ellos; no los conocen por las calles. Su piel está pegada a sus huesos, seco como un palo

9 Tet: Más dichosos fueron los muertos a espada que los muertos del hambre. Porque éstos murieron poco a poco por falta de los frutos de la tierra

10 Yod: Las manos de las mujeres piadosas cocieron a sus hijos; les fueron comida en el quebrantamiento de la hija de mi pueblo