Lamentations 5:10 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Our skin is black as an oven from the scorching heat of famine. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Our skin was black like an oven Because of the terrible famine. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Our skin glows and is parched as from [the heat of] an oven because of the burning heat of [the fever of] famine. American Standard Version (1901) Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine. Common English Bible Our skin is as hot as an oven because of the burning heat of famine. Catholic Public Domain Version Our skin was burned, as if by an oven, before the face of the tempest of the famine. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine. |
For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke, yet I have not forgotten your statutes.
Now their visage is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as wood.