Lamentations 5:10
“Our skinne was blacke like an ouen, because of the terrible famine.”
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Lamentations 5:10 Context
8Seruants haue ruled ouer vs: there is none that doeth deliuer vs out of their hand. 9We gate our bread with the perill of our liues, because of the sword of the wildernesse. 10Our skinne was blacke like an ouen, because of the terrible famine. 11They rauished the women in Zion, and the maides in the cities of Iudah. 12Princes are hanged vp by their hand: the faces of Elders were not honoured.
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Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
- King James Version
Our skin has become as hot as an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
- American Standard Version (1901)
Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from need of food.
- Basic English Bible
Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the burning heat of the famine.
- Darby Bible
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
- Webster's Bible
Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
- World English Bible
Our skin as an oven hath been burning, Because of the raging of the famine.
- Youngs Literal Bible
Our skin is hot like an oven because of the burning heat of famine.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible