Lamentations 5:10
Our skin is parched like an oven Because of the burnings of hunger.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
In Context
9With the peril of our lives we get our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
11Matrons in Zion have they ravished, And maidens in the cities of Judah.
Cross References
Psalms 119:83Yea, I am become like a bottle in the smoke; Yet do I not forget thy statutes.
Lamentations 4:8Now darker than a coal is their countenance; they are not known in the streets. Their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is become dry, 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 →