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.
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- Lamentations 5:10 Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.
- Job 30:30 My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.
- Psalm 102:3–5 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. Through my loud groaning my skin hangs on my bones.