Lamentations 5:10
Our skin, as with a furnace, is scorched, because of the hot winds of famine.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
In Context
9At the risk of our life, do we bring in our bread, because of the sword of the desert.
11Women—in Zion, were ravished, virgins, in the cities of Judah!
Cross References
Psalms 119:83Though I have been like a wine-skin in the smoke, thy statutes, have I not forgotten.
Lamentations 4:8Darker than a coal, is their visage, They are not known in the streets—Their skin shrivelleth on their bones, is withered, become like 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 →