American Standard Version
Lamentations 5:10
10Our skin is black like an oven,Because of the burning heat of famine.
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 none to deliver us out of their hand. 9We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness. Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine. 11They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah. 12Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.
Read all of Lamentations 5Lamentations 5:10 word by word
עוֹרֵ֙נוּ֙ כְּתַנּ֣וּר נִכְמָ֔רוּ מִפְּנֵ֖י זַלְעֲפ֥וֹת רָעָֽב׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Lamentations 5:10
- Lamentations 3:4My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
- 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, and fallethfrom me, And my bones are burned with heat.
- Psalms 119:83For I am become like a wine-skin in the smoke; Yet do I not forget thy 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
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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
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