Lamentations 5:10
Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the heat of famine.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
In Context
9At the peril of our life must we bring home our bread, because of the sword of the wilderness.
11Women have they ravished in Zion, virgins, in the cities of Judah.
Cross References
Psalms 119:83For I am become like a bottle in the smoke: [yet] do I not forget thy statutes.
Lamentations 4:8Darker than black is now their visage; they are not to be recognized in the streets: their skin is shriveled fast upon their bones; it is dry, it 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 →