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


In Context

7 Our fathers sinned, and are no more; We have borne their iniquities.

8 Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.

9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

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

11 They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.

12 Princes were hanged up 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 Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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