Lamentations Chapter 5 verse 10 Holy Bible
Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
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Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from need of food.
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Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the burning heat of the famine.
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Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
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Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
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Our skin as an oven hath been burning, Because of the raging of the famine.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 10. - Was black like an oven. The translation is misleading; there is no real parallel to Lamentations 4:8. Render, gloweth. It is the feverish glow produced by gnawing hunger which is meant. The terrible famine; rather, the burning heat of hunger. Hariri, the humoristic author of the cycle of stories in rhymed Arabic prose and verse, called 'Makamat,' puts into the mouth of his ne'er do well Abu Seid very similar words to describe a famished man - "Dess Eingeweide brennend nach Erquickung sehrein,Der nichts gegessen seit zwei Tagen oder drein."(Ruckert's adaptation, third Makama.)
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(10) Our skin was black . . .-Better, fiery red, and for "terrible famine," the fever-blast of famine. The words paint the hot fever of hunger rather than the livid paleness of exhaustion.
