KJV King James Version
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
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Lamentations 5:10
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.
WEB World English Bible
Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
ASV American Standard Version
Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Our skin as an oven hath been burning, Because of the raging of the famine.
Surrounding context — Lamentations 5
7 Our fathers have sinned, [and are] not; and we have borne their iniquities.
8 Servants have ruled over us: [there is] none that doth deliver [us] out of their hand.
9 We gat our bread with [the peril of] our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
11 They ravished the women in Zion, [and] the maids in the cities of Judah.
12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
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Lamentations 4:8Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.Job 30:30My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.Psalm 119:83For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; [yet] do I not forget thy statutes.Lamentations 3:4My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
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