English Standard Version
Lamentations 5:10
10Our skin is hot as an oven with 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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Our skin is hot as an oven, Because of the fever of famine.
- New Living Translation (NLT)The famine has blackened our skin as though baked in an oven.
Context of Lamentations 5:10
8Slaves rule over us; there is none to deliver us from their hand. 9We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness. Our skin is hot as an oven with the burning heat of famine. 11Women are raped in Zion, young women in the towns of Judah. 12Princes are hung up by their hands; no respect is shown to the elders.
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 3:4He has made my flesh and my skin waste away; he has broken my bones;
- Lamentations 4:8Now their face is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets; their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as wood.
- Job 30:30My skin turns black and falls from me, and my bones burn with heat.
- Psalms 119:83For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke, yet I have not forgotten 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
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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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