Lamentations 5:10
Our skin was hot like an oven 1 because we burn with ra'av (hunger, famine). 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
In Context
9We get our lechem with the peril of our lives 1 because of the cherev of the midbar. 1
11They ravished the nashim in Tziyon, 1 and the betulot in the towns of Yehudah. 1
Cross References
Psalms 119:83For I am become like a wineskin in the smoke; 1 yet do I not forget Thy chukkim. 1
Lamentations 4:8Their visage is blacker than soot; 1 they are not known in the streets; 1 their skin cleaveth to their atzmot; 1 it is dried up, it is become like a stick. 1
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 →