Lamentations 5:10
Our skin has grown as hot as an oven 1 because of the burning heat of hunger. 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
In Context
9We get our bread only by risking our lives, 1 because of the sword in the wilderness. 1
11Women are raped in Zion, 1 and virgins in the cities of Judah. 1
Cross References
Psalms 119:83For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke; 1 I do not forget your statutes. 1
Lamentations 4:8Their appearance now is darker than soot; 1 they are not recognized in the streets. 1 Their skin has shriveled on their bones; 1 it has become as dry as wood. 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 →