Lamentations 4:8

Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. terrible: or, terrors, or, storms

For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth. like...: or, (as some read) into smoke My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread. By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin. skin: or, flesh

My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. and to: or, as to

For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.

So they two went until they came to Bethlehem. And it came to pass, when they were come to Bethlehem, that all the city was moved about them, and they said, Is this Naomi? And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me. Naomi: that is, Pleasant Mara: that is, Bitter

My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.

His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.

Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness. blackness: Heb. pot

As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:

And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.

For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.