Lamentations 5:10 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁰ 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)

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

Common English Bible

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

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁰ 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

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

Lamentations 5:10 Cross References

Job 30:30

My skin is black, and falleth from me, And my bones are burned with heat.

Psalm 119:83

For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; Yet do I not forget thy statutes.

Lamentations 3:4

My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

Lamentations 4:8

Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.