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Lamentations 5:10
10Our skin feels as if we are burning. We are so hungry that we are ill.
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
8Slaves now rule us. And there is nobody to save us from their power. 9We meet danger when we work in the fields. Enemies are everywhere and they want to kill us. Our skin feels as if we are burning. We are so hungry that we are ill. 11Enemies do what they want with the women in Zion. They are cruel to the young women in Judah's cities. 12They hang our leaders by their hands. And they are cruel to our old men too.
Read all of Lamentations 5Lamentations 5:10 word by word
עוֹרֵ֙נוּ֙ כְּתַנּ֣וּר נִכְמָ֔רוּ מִפְּנֵ֖י זַלְעֲפ֥וֹת רָעָֽב׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Lamentations 5:10
- Lamentations 3:4God has caused my skin and my whole body to become old. He has broken my bones.
- Lamentations 4:8Now their faces are dirty and black. People see them in the streets, but they do not recognize them. Their skin hangs on their bones. Their skin is as dry as wood for a fire.
- Job 30:30My skin has become black, and bits of skin fall off. My body is hot with fever.
- Psalms 119:83I am like an old wineskin that has become useless. But I have not forgotten your rules.
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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