Lamentations 5:10

10 Our skin is hot as an oven, feverish from hunger.

Lamentations 5:10 in Other Translations

KJV
10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
ESV
10 Our skin is hot as an oven with the burning heat of famine.
NLT
10 The famine has blackened our skin as though baked in an oven.
MSG
10 Our skin has turned black as an oven, dried out like old leather from the famine.
CSB
10 Our skin is as hot as an oven from the ravages of hunger.

Lamentations 5:10 In-Context

8 Slaves rule over us, and there is no one to free us from their hands.
9 We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the desert.
10 Our skin is hot as an oven, feverish from hunger.
11 Women have been violated in Zion, and virgins in the towns of Judah.
12 Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders are shown no respect.

Cross References 1

  • 1. S Job 30:30; S Lamentations 4:8-9
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