Lamentations 5:10
King James Version (KJV)
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
In context
8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
9 We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
11 They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
Lamentations 5:10 in every translation
- KJV King James Version
- Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
- WEB World English Bible
- Our skin is black like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.
- ASV American Standard Version
- Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- Our skin as an oven hath been burning, Because of the raging of the famine.
- DBY Darby Translation
- Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the burning heat of the famine.
- WBS Webster Bible
- Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.