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

8Slaves have now become our masters; there is no one left to rescue us. 9We hunt for food at the risk of our lives, for violence rules the countryside. The famine has blackened our skin as though baked in an oven. 11Our enemies rape the women in Jerusalem and the young girls in all the towns of Judah. 12Our princes are being hanged by their thumbs, and our elders are treated with contempt.

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 made my skin and flesh grow old. He has broken my bones.
• Lamentations 4:8But now their faces are blacker than soot. No one recognizes them in the streets. Their skin sticks to their bones; it is as dry and hard as wood.
• Job 30:30My skin has turned dark, and my bones burn with fever.
• Psalms 119:83I am shriveled like a wineskin in the smoke, but I have not forgotten to obey your decrees.

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