Lamentations 5:10
Our skin was burned, as if by an oven, before the face of the tempest of the famine.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
In Context
9We obtained our bread at the risk of our lives, before the face of the sword, in the wilderness.
11They humiliated the women in Zion and the virgins in the cities of Judah.
Cross References
Lamentations 4:8HETH. Their face has been blacked more than coals, and they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has adhered to their bones; it dried out and became 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 →