Lamentations 5:10
Modern Translations
New International Version
Our skin is hot as an oven, feverish from hunger.

New Living Translation
The famine has blackened our skin as though baked in an oven.

English Standard Version
Our skin is hot as an oven with the burning heat of famine.

Berean Study Bible
Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.

New American Standard Bible
Our skin has become as hot as an oven, Because of the ravages of hunger.

NASB 1995
Our skin has become as hot as an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.

NASB 1977
Our skin has become as hot as an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.

Amplified Bible
Our skin is as hot as [the heat of] an oven Because of the burning heat of [the fever of] famine.

Christian Standard Bible
Our skin is as hot as an oven from the ravages of hunger.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Our skin is as hot as an oven from the ravages of hunger.

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

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Our skin is as hot as an oven from the burning heat of starvation.

International Standard Version
Our skin blisters as from an oven, due to ravaging blasts of the famine.

NET Bible
Our skin is hot as an oven due to a fever from hunger.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

New King James Version
Our skin is hot as an oven, Because of the fever of famine.

King James 2000 Bible
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

New Heart English Bible
Our skin is hot like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.

World English Bible
Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.

American King James Version
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

American Standard Version
Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.

A Faithful Version
Our skin is hot like an oven because of the burning heat of famine.

Darby Bible Translation
Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the burning heat of the famine.

English Revised Version
Our skin is black like an oven because of the burning heat of famine.

Webster's Bible Translation
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Our skinne was blacke like as an ouen because of the terrible famine.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Our skinne is as it had ben made blacke in an ouen, for very sore hunger.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Oure skynne is as it had bene brent in an ouen, for very sore honger.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Our skin as an oven has been burning, "" Because of the raging of the famine.

Young's Literal Translation
Our skin as an oven hath been burning, Because of the raging of the famine.

Smith's Literal Translation
Our skin was scorched as a furnace from the face of the violent heat of famine.

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

Catholic Public Domain Version
Our skin was burned, as if by an oven, before the face of the tempest of the famine.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Our skins were burned as by a furnace and they became pale in the wretchedness of famine

Lamsa Bible
Our skin has shriveled as though burned in an oven because of the suffering of famine.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Our skin is hot like an oven Because of the burning heat of famine.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Our skin is blackened like an oven; they are convulsed, because of the storms of famine.
















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