What Does the Bible Say About The Color Black?
Here are 6 Bible verses about the color black, ordered by how relevant readers found them, with the King James Version and the modern Berean Standard Bible side by side.
- #1Lamentations 5:10
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
BSBOur skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.
- #2Jeremiah 14:2
Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
BSB“Judah mourns and her gates languish. Her people wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.
- #3Song of Solomon 1:5
I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
BSBI am dark, yet lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.
- #4Zechariah 6:2
In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot black horses;
BSBThe first chariot had red horses, the second black horses,
- #5Job 30:30
My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
BSBMy skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.
- #6Zechariah 6:6
The black horses which are therein go forth into the north country; and the white go forth after them; and the grisled go forth toward the south country.
BSBThe one with the black horses is going toward the land of the north, the one with the white horses toward the west, and the one with the dappled horses toward the south.”
Verse rankings: OpenBible.info Topical Bible (CC BY). Scripture: KJV & BSB (public domain).