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Lamentations 5:10

World English Bible

Our skin is black like an oven,
because of the burning heat of famine.

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Lamentations 5:10 in other translations

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

Lamentations 5:10 · American Standard Version

Lamentations 5:10 in context

  1. 8Servants rule over us.
    There is no one to deliver us out of their hand.
  2. 9We get our bread at the peril of our lives,
    because of the sword of the wilderness.
  3. 10Our skin is black like an oven,
    because of the burning heat of famine.
  4. 11They ravished the women in Zion,
    the virgins in the cities of Judah.
  5. 12Princes were hanged up by their hands.
    The faces of elders were not honored.