Lamentations 5:10
8 Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands.
9 We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.
Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.
11 Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.
12 Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.
- KJV
- Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
- WEB
- Our skin is black like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.
- ASV
- Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
- DARBY
- Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the burning heat of the famine.
- BLB
- Our skin like an oven grows hot from the face of the burning heat of famine.
- ÅB
- Vår hud brenner som en ovn av hungerens flammer.
- OTB
- Vår hud er så varm som en ovn, feberaktig av hungersnødens herjinger.
- B1930
- Vår hud brenner som en ovn av hungerens luer.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Lamentations 4:8
But now their appearance is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as a stick.
Read in contextJob 30:30
My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.
Read in contextPsalms 119:83
Though I am like a wineskin dried up by smoke, I do not forget Your statutes.
Read in contextLamentations 3:4
He has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered my bones.
Read in context