Lamentations 5:10
Our skin as an oven has been burning, || Because of the raging of the famine.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
In Context
9With our lives we bring in our bread, || Because of the sword of the wilderness.
11Wives in Zion they have humbled, || Virgins—in cities of Judah.
Cross References
Psalms 119:83For I have been as a bottle in smoke, || I have not forgotten Your statutes.
Lamentations 4:8Their face has been darker than blackness, || They have not been known in out-places, || Their skin has cleaved to their bone, || It has withered—it has been 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 →