Lamentations 5:10
Our skin is black like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
In Context
9We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
11They ravished the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah.
Cross References
Psalms 119:83For I have become like a wine-skin in the smoke. Yet I do not forget thy statutes.
Lamentations 4:8Their visage is blacker than a coal. They are not known in the streets. Their skin clings to their bones. It is withered. It has become like a stick.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 5:2-17
An Appeal to God; Complicated Sorrows. ( b. c. 588.) 1 Remember, O Lord , what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. 2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. 3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. 4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. 5 Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest. 6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. 7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not;… Read the whole commentary →