Lamentations 5:10 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁰ Our skin is black as an oven from the scorching heat of famine.

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

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¹⁰ Our skin glows and is parched as from [the heat of] an oven because of the burning heat of [the fever of] famine.

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

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¹⁰ Our skin is as hot as an oven because of the burning heat of famine.

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¹⁰ Our skin was burned, as if by an oven, before the face of the tempest of the famine.

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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.

My skin turns black and falls from me, and my bones burn with heat.

For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke, yet I have not forgotten your statutes.

He has made my flesh and my skin waste away; he has broken my bones;