Lamentations 5:10
Our skinne is as it had ben made blacke in an ouen, for very sore hunger.
Bible (Bishops')
In The King James Version
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
In Context
9We must get our liuing with the perill of our liues, because of the drouth of the wildernesse.
11The wiues are rauished in Sion, and the maydens in the cities of Iuda.
Cross References
Lamentations 4:8But nowe their faces be very blacke, insomuche that thou shouldest not knowe them in the streetes: their skinne cleaueth to their bones, it is withered and become like a drye stocke.
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 →