Lamentations 5:10 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Lamentations 5:10 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.
Job 30:30
My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
Psalms 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.

Topics

Canaan Drought Famine Hunger

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-16)

Isa. any afflicted? let him pray; and let him in prayer pour out his complaint to God, and make known before him his trouble. The people of God do so here; being overwhelmed with grief, they give vent to their sorrows at the footstool of the throne of grace, and so give themselves ease. They complain not of evils feared, but of evils felt: “ Remember what has come upon us, Lam. 5:1. What was of ol…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 10)

10. As an oven is scorched with too much fire, so our skin with the hot blast of famine (Margin, rightly, “storms,” like the hot simoom). Hunger dries up the pores so that the skin becomes like as if it were scorched by the sun (Job 30:30; Psa 119:83).