Lamentations 5:10

WEB

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

KJV

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

BSB

¹⁰Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.

FBV

¹⁰Our skin is hot like an oven because of the fever caused by hunger.

Extra References

Lamentations 4:8

⁸Their appearance is blacker than a coal. They are not known in the streets. Their skin clings to their bones. It is withered. It has become like wood.

Job 30:30

³⁰My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.

Psalms 119:83

⁸³For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke. I don’t forget your statutes.

Lamentations 3:4

⁴He has made my flesh and my skin old. He has broken my bones.