Lamentations 5:10

Lamentations 5:10 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
• New International Version (NIV)Our skin is hot as an oven, feverish from hunger.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Our skin is hot as an oven with the burning heat of famine.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Our skin is hot as an oven, Because of the fever of famine.

Context of Lamentations 5:10

8Servants rule over us; There is no one to rescue us out of their hand. 9We get our bread at the risk of our lives Because of the sword [of the Arabs] in the wilderness [who may attack if we go out to harvest the crop]. Our skin is as hot as [the heat of] an oven Because of the burning heat of [the fever of] famine. 11They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah. 12Princes were hung by their hands; Elders were not respected.

Lamentations 5:10 word by word

עוֹרֵ֙נוּ֙ כְּתַנּ֣וּר נִכְמָ֔רוּ מִפְּנֵ֖י זַלְעֲפ֥וֹת רָעָֽב׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Our skinעוֹר‛ôr · skinH5785
• was blackכָּמַרkâmar · to grow warmH3648
• like an ovenתַּנּוּרtannûr · ovenH8574
• becauseפָּנֶהpânîym · face: becauseH6440
• of the terribleזַלְעָפָהzal‛âphâh zil‛âphâh · scorchingH2152
• famineרָעָבrâ‛âb · famineH7458

Cross-references for Lamentations 5:10

• Lamentations 3:4He has caused my flesh and my skin to waste away; He has shattered my bones.
• Lamentations 4:8Their appearance is [now] blacker than soot [because of the prolonged famine]; They are not recognized in the streets; Their skin clings to their bones; It is withered, and it has become [dry] like wood.
• Job 30:30My skin falls from me in blackened flakes, And my bones are burned with fever.
• Psalms 119:83For I have become like a wineskin [blackened and shriveled] in the smoke [in which it hangs], Yet I do not forget Your statutes.

Commentaries on Lamentations 5:10

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 10Our skin was black - because of the terrible famine - Because of the searching winds that burnt up every green thing, destroying vegetation, and in consequence producing a famine.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10Our skin … - Or, is fiery red like an oven because of the fever-blast “of famine.”Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 10There was a famine in Jerusalem during the siege, and the people ran out of food (2 Kings 25:3; Jeremiah 37:21; 38:9; 52:6).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1010. As an oven is scorched with too much fire, so our skin with the hot blast of famine (Margin, rightly, "storms," like the hot simoom). Hunger dries up the pores so that the skin becomes like as if it were scorched by the sun (Job 30:30; Psa 119:83).Read the comment

Topics related to Lamentations 5:10

• Famine
• Patriotism

In the dictionaries

• Colour
• Crown
• Persecution
• Acrostic
• Color; Colors
• Famine
• Horror
• Lamentations, Book of
• Poetry, Hebrew

Commentaries on Lamentations 5

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings