Lamentations 5:10
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.In other versions
Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
ASV
Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from need of food.
BBE
Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the burning heat of the famine.
DBY
Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
WEB
Our skin as an oven hath been burning, Because of the raging of the famine.
YLT
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
ENG
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
WBT
Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.
BSB
In context
8Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
9We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
10Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
11They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
12Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.