10Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.


In Context

7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.

9 We procured our bread with the peril of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.

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

11 They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.

12 Princes were hanged by their hand: the faces of elders were not honored.

Lamentations 5:10 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:10Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

5:10Our skin is hot as an oven, feverish from hunger.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

5:10Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:10Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:10Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the burning heat of the famine.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:10Our skin is black like an oven because of the burning heat of famine.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:10Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:10Our skin as an oven hath been burning, Because of the raging of the famine.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:10Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.