Lamentations 5:10
Our skinne was blacke like as an ouen because of the terrible famine.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
In Context
9Wee gate our bread with the perill of our liues, because of the sword of the wildernesse.
11They defiled the women in Zion, and the maydes in the cities of Iudah.
Cross References
Psalms 119:83For I am like a bottell in the smoke: yet doe I not forget thy statutes.
Lamentations 4:8Nowe their visage is blacker then a cole: they can not knowe them in the streetes: their skinne cleaueth to their bones: it is withered like a stocke.
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 →