Lamentations 5:10
Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.
BSB
ASV
Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
KJV
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
Our 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.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Psalms 119:83Though I am like a wineskin dried up by smoke, I do not forget Your statutes.
leads to
My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
I have strayed like a lost sheep; seek Your servant, for I have not forgotten Your commandments.
Through
Job 30:30My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.
leads to
Though I am like a wineskin dried up by smoke, I do not forget Your statutes.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
But now their appearance is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as a stick.
For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.
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Lamentations 3:4He has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered my bones.
leads to
Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones You have crushed rejoice.
I composed myself until the morning. Like a lion He breaks all my bones; from day until night You make an end of me.
Through
Lamentations 4:8But now their appearance is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as a stick.
leads to
For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.