Lamentations 5:10
Our skin is blackened like an oven; they are convulsed, because of the storms of famine.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
In Context
9We shall bring in our bread with danger of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
11They humbled the women in Sion, the virgins in the cities of Juda.
Cross References
Lamentations 4:8Heth. Their countenance is become blacker than smoke; they are not known in the streets: their skin has cleaved to their bones; they are withered, they are become as 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 →