Lamentations 5:10 KJV — MannaFest

Lamentations 5:10

Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

KJV

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ASV

Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.

WEB

Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.

YLT

Our skin as an oven hath been burning, Because of the raging of the famine.

DBT

Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the burning heat of the famine.

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Lamentations — Five poems over the ruin of Jerusalem. The first four are alphabetic acrostics — every letter of the Hebrew alphabet drafted to hold the weight of grief. At the book's centre, mercy renewed every morning.

Author: Traditionally Jeremiah (cf. 2 Chron 35:25); the book itself is anonymous
Date: Shortly after Jerusalem's fall, c. 586 BC

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14 verses on the floor

Lamentations 4:8
Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
Job 30:30
My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
Psalms 119:83
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.
Lamentations 3:4
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
Jeremiah 14:2
Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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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;

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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LAM 5:10PSA 119:83 JOB 30:30
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
LAM 5:10JOB 30:30 PSA 119:83
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
LAM 5:10JOB 30:30 LAM 4:8
LAM 5:10JOB 30:30 PSA 102:3
LAM 5:10LAM 3:4 PSA 51:8
LAM 5:10LAM 3:4 ISA 38:13
LAM 5:10LAM 4:8 PSA 102:3-5
LAM 5:10PSA 119:83 PSA 119:176

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