Lamentations 5:10
Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
In Context
9We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.
11Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.
Cross References
Psalms 119:83Though I am like a wineskin dried up by smoke, I do not forget Your statutes.
Lamentations 4:8But now their appearance is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry 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 →