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

8Bondmen rule over us: there is no deliverer out of their hand. 9We have to get our bread at the risk of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness. Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the burning heat of the famine. 11They have ravished the women in Zion, the maids in the cities of Judah. 12Princes were hanged up by their hand; the faces of elders were not honoured.

Lamentations 5:10 word by word

עוֹרֵ֙נוּ֙ כְּתַנּ֣וּר נִכְמָ֔רוּ מִפְּנֵ֖י זַלְעֲפ֥וֹת רָעָֽב׃Read the interlinear

• skinעוֹר‛ôr · skinH5785
• ovenתַּנּוּרtannûr · ovenH8574
• burningזַלְעָפָהzal‛âphâh zil‛âphâh · scorchingH2152
• famineרָעָבrâ‛âb · famineH7458

Cross-references for Lamentations 5:10

• Lamentations 3:4My flesh and my skin hath he wasted away, he hath broken my bones.
• Lamentations 4:8Their visage is darker than blackness, 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 become black [and falleth] off me, and my bones are parched with heat.
• Psalms 119:83For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; I do 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

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