Lamentations 5:10
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.
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.
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
Their 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.
Read in contextJob 30:30
My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
Read in contextPsalms 119:83
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.
Read in contextLamentations 3:4
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
Read in context