Lamentaciones 4:8

Jet

8 Pero ahora se ven más sucios que el hollín;en la calle nadie los reconoce.Su piel, reseca como la leña,se les pega a los huesos.

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 Más grande que los pecados de Sodomaes la iniquidad de Jerusalén;¡fue derribada en un instante,y nadie le tendió la mano!

7 Más radiantes que la nieve eran sus príncipes,y más blancos que la leche;más rosado que el coral era su cuerpo;su apariencia era la del zafiro.

8 Pero ahora se ven más sucios que el hollín;en la calle nadie los reconoce.Su piel, reseca como la leña,se les pega a los huesos.

9 ¡Dichosos los que mueren por la espada,más que los que mueren de hambre!Torturados por el hambre desfallecen,pues no cuentan con los frutos del campo.

10 Con sus manos, mujeres compasivascocinaron a sus propios hijos,y esos niños fueron su alimentocuando Jerusalén fue destruida.