Lamentations 5:10
Good News Translation
Hunger has made us burn with fever until our skin is as hot as an oven.

New Revised Standard Version
Our skin is black as an oven from the scorching heat of famine.

Contemporary English Version
Our skin is scorched from fever and hunger.

New American Bible
Our skin heats up like an oven, from the searing blasts of famine.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.

skin

Lamentations 3:4 Beth. My skin and my flesh he hath made old, he hath broken my bones.

Lamentations 4:8 Heth. Their face is now made blacker than coals, and they are not known in the streets: their skin hath stuck to their bones, it is withered, and is become like wood.

Job 30:30 My skin is become black upon me, and my bones are dried up with heat.

Psalm 119:83 For I am become like a bottle in the frost: I have not forgotten thy justifications.

Context
A Prayer for Restoration
9We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert. 10Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.11They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda.…
Cross References
Job 30:30
My skin is become black upon me, and my bones are dried up with heat.

Lamentations 4:8
Heth. Their face is now made blacker than coals, and they are not known in the streets: their skin hath stuck to their bones, it is withered, and is become like wood.

Lamentations 5:9
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