My skin is black, and falleth from me, And my bones are burned with heat.
Lamentations 5:10 - Revised Version 1885 Our skin is black like an oven because of the burning heat of famine. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
My skin is black, and falleth from me, And my bones are burned with heat.
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; Yet do I not forget thy statutes.
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.