Lamentations 4:8
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8 Now their visage is blacker than soot;
they are not recognized in the streets.
Their skin has shriveled on their bones;
it has become as dry as wood.(A)
Lamentations 5:10
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10 Our skin is black as an oven
from the scorching heat of famine.(A)
Psalm 102:3-5
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3 For my days pass away like smoke,
and my bones burn like a furnace.(A)
4 My heart is stricken and withered like grass;
I am too wasted to eat my bread.(B)
5 Because of my loud groaning,
my bones cling to my skin.(C)
Job 30:30
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30 My skin turns black and falls from me,
and my bones burn with heat.(A)
Psalm 119:83
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83 For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke,
yet I have not forgotten your statutes.(A)
Job 19:20
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20 My bones cling to my skin and to my flesh,
and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.(A)
Nahum 2:10
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10 Devastation, desolation, and destruction!
Hearts faint and knees tremble;
all loins quake;
all faces grow pale!(A)
Joel 2:6
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Notas al pie
- 2.6 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Lamentations 4:1-2
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The Punishment of Zion
4 How the gold has grown dim;
how the pure gold is changed!
The sacred stones lie scattered
at the head of every street.
2 The precious children of Zion,
worth their weight in fine gold—
how they are reckoned as earthen pots,
the work of a potter’s hands!(A)
Isaiah 52:14
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14 Just as there were many who were astonished at him[a]
—so marred was his appearance, beyond human semblance,
and his form beyond that of mortals—(A)
Notas al pie
- 52.14 Syr Tg: Heb you
Psalm 102:11
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11 My days are like a lengthening shadow;
I wither away like grass.(A)
Psalm 38:3
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3 There is no soundness in my flesh
because of your indignation;
there is no health in my bones
because of my sin.(A)
Psalm 32:4
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4 For day and night your hand was heavy upon me;
my strength was dried up[a] as by the heat of summer. Selah(A)
Notas al pie
- 32.4 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Job 33:21
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21 Their flesh is so wasted away that it cannot be seen,
and their bones, once invisible, now stick out.(A)
Job 30:17-19
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17 The night racks my bones,
and the pain that gnaws me takes no rest.
18 With violence he seizes my garment;[a]
he grasps me by[b] the collar of my tunic.
19 He has cast me into the mire,
and I have become like dust and ashes.(A)
Job 2:12
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12 When they saw him from a distance, they did not recognize him, and they raised their voices and wept aloud; they tore their robes and threw dust in the air upon their heads.(A)
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Ruth 1:19-20
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19 So the two of them went on until they came to Bethlehem. When they came to Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them, and the women said, “Is this Naomi?” 20 She said to them,
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