Lamentations 5:10
Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
In Context
9We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert.
11They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda.
Cross References
Lamentations 4:8Heth. Their face is now made blacker than coals, and they are not known in the streets: their skin hath stuck to their bones, it is withered, and is 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 →