Cross references
Lamentations 4:8
But now their appearance is blacker than soot;
they are not recognized in the streets.
Their skin has shriveled on their bones;
it has become as dry as a stick.
Lamentations 4:8 has 16 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 3 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Lamentations 5:10 (5 votes) and Job 30:30 (4 votes). 23 other verses point back to it. It links with 14 other books, from Genesis 41 to Nahum 2.
Which verses does Lamentations 4:8 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Lamentations 5:105 votes
Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.
- Job 30:304 votes
My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.
- Psalm 102:3–54 votes
For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers. My heart is afflicted, and withered like grass; I even forget to eat my bread. …
- Job 19:203 votes
My skin and flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
- Psalm 119:833 votes
Though I am like a wineskin dried up by smoke, I do not forget Your statutes.
- Ruth 1:19–202 votes
So Naomi and Ruth traveled until they came to Bethlehem. When they entered Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them, and the women of the town exclaimed, “Can this be Naomi?” “Do not call me Naomi,” she replied. “Call me Mara, because the Almighty has dealt quite bitterly with me.
- Job 2:122 votes
When they lifted up their eyes from afar, they could barely recognize Job. They began to weep aloud, and each man tore his robe and threw dust in the air over his head.
- Job 30:17–192 votes
Night pierces my bones, and my gnawing pains never rest. With great force He grasps my garment; He seizes me by the collar of my tunic. …
- Job 33:212 votes
His flesh wastes away from sight, and his hidden bones protrude.
- Psalm 32:42 votes
For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was drained as in the summer heat. Selah
- Psalm 38:32 votes
- Psalm 102:112 votes
- Isaiah 52:142 votes
- Lamentations 4:1–22 votes
How the gold has become tarnished, the pure gold has become dull! The gems of the temple lie scattered on every street corner. How the precious sons of Zion, once worth their weight in pure gold, are now esteemed as jars of clay, the work of a potter’s hands!
- Joel 2:62 votes
- Nahum 2:102 votes
Which verses point to Lamentations 4:8?
The 10 strongest of 23.