Lamentations 5:10
Our skin is hot like an oven because of the fever caused by hunger.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
In Context
9We take our lives in our hands when we look for food, because of the armed raiders in the desert.
11They raped women in Zion, virgins in the towns of Judah.
Cross References
Psalms 119:83I've become like a wineskin that's been shriveled up by smoke, but I have not forgotten to do as you say.
Lamentations 4:8But now they look blacker than soot; no one recognizes them in the street. Their skin has shrunk to their bones and is as dry as 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 →