Lamentaciones 4:8

8 Pero ahora sus caras son más negras que el carbón;
nadie los reconoce en las calles.
La piel se les pega a los huesos;
está tan seca y dura como la madera.

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 La culpa
de mi pueblo
es mayor que la de Sodoma,
cuando en un instante cayó el desastre total
y nadie ofreció ayuda.

7 Nuestros príncipes antes rebosaban de salud,
más brillantes que la nieve, más blancos que la leche.
Sus rostros eran tan rosados como rubíes,
su aspecto como joyas preciosas.

8 Pero ahora sus caras son más negras que el carbón;
nadie los reconoce en las calles.
La piel se les pega a los huesos;
está tan seca y dura como la madera.

9 Los que murieron a espada terminaron mejor
que los que mueren de hambre.
Hambrientos, se consumen
por la falta de comida de los campos.

10 Mujeres de buen corazón
han cocinado a sus propios hijos;
los comieron
para sobrevivir el sitio.