Lamentations 5:10
Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from need of food.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
In Context
9We put our lives in danger to get our bread, because of the sword of the waste land.
11They took by force the women in Zion, the virgins in the towns of Judah.
Cross References
Psalms 119:83For I have become like a wine-skin black with smoke; but I still keep the memory of your rules.
Lamentations 4:8Their face is blacker than night; in the streets no one has knowledge of them: their skin is hanging on their bones, they are dry, they have become like wood.
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 →