Charles Ellicott Commentary Lamentations 4:8

"Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: Their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick." — Lamentations 4:8 (ASV)

Their visage is blacker ... — We look, as it were, on the two pictures: the bloom and beauty of health, the wan, worn, spectral looks of starvation.