Lamentations 5:10

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Our skin is as hot as an ovenfrom the ravages of hunger.

Hebrew Names Version
Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.

King James Version
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

English Standard Version
Our skin is hot as an oven with the burning heat of famine.

New American Standard Bible
Our skin has become as hot as an oven, Because of the ravages of hunger.

New Century Version
Our skin is hot like an oven; we burn with starvation.

Amplified Bible
Our skin is as hot as [the heat of] an oven Because of the burning heat of [the fever of] famine.

World English Bible
Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Our skinne was blacke like as an ouen because of the terrible famine.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Our skin has become as hot as an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.

Legacy Standard Bible
Our skin has become as hot as an ovenBecause of the burning heat of famine.

Berean Standard Bible
Our skin is as hot as an oven because of the burning of famine.

Contemporary English Version
Our skin is scorched from fever and hunger.

Complete Jewish Bible
Our skins are as black as a furnace because of the searing blasts of famine.

Darby Translation
Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the burning heat of the famine.

Easy-to-Read Version
Our skin is hot like an oven. We have a high fever because of our hunger.

George Lamsa Translation
Our skin has shriveled as though burned in an oven because of the suffering of famine.

Good News Translation
Hunger has made us burn with fever until our skin is as hot as an oven.

Lexham English Bible
Our skin is hot like an oven because of the scorching famine.

Literal Translation
Our skin is burned black like an oven, because of the fever heat of famine.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Oure skynne is as it had bene brent in an ouen, for very sore honger.

American Standard Version
Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.

Bible in Basic English
Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from need of food.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Our skin is hot like an oven because of the burning heat of famine.

King James Version (1611)
Our skinne was blacke like an ouen, because of the terrible famine.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Our skinne is as it had ben made blacke in an ouen, for very sore hunger.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Our skin is blackened like an oven; they are convulsed, because of the storms of famine.

English Revised Version
Our skin is black like an oven because of the burning heat of famine.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Oure skynne is brent as a furneis, of the face of tempestis of hungur.

Update Bible Version
Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.

Webster's Bible Translation
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

New English Translation
Our skin is hot as an oven due to a fever from hunger.

New King James Version
Our skin is hot as an oven, Because of the fever of famine.

New Living Translation
The famine has blackened our skin as though baked in an oven.

New Life Bible
Our skin has become as hot as fire because of the burning heat of hunger.

New Revised Standard
Our skin is black as an oven from the scorching heat of famine.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Our skin, as with a furnace, is scorched, because of the hot winds of famine.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.

Revised Standard Version
Our skin is hot as an oven with the burning heat of famine.

Young's Literal Translation
Our skin as an oven hath been burning, Because of the raging of the famine.

Contextual Overview

¹ "Remember, God , all we've been through. Study our plight, the black mark we've made in history. Our precious land has been given to outsiders, our homes to strangers. Orphans we are, not a father in sight, and our mothers no better than widows. We have to pay to drink our own water. Even our firewood comes at a price. We're nothing but slaves, bullied and bowed, worn out and without any rest. We sold ourselves to Assyria and Egypt just to get something to eat. Our parents sinned and are no more, and now we're paying for the wrongs they did. Slaves rule over us; there's no escape from their grip. We risk our lives to gather food in the bandit-infested desert. Our skin has turned black as an oven, dried out like old leather from the famine. Our wives were raped in the streets in Zion, and our virgins in the cities of Judah. They hanged our princes by their hands, dishonored our elders. Strapping young men were put to women's work, mere boys forced to do men's work. The city gate is empty of wise elders. Music from the young is heard no more. All the joy is gone from our hearts. Our dances have turned into dirges. The crown of glory has toppled from our head. Woe! Woe! Would that we'd never sinned! Because of all this we're heartsick; we can't see through the tears. On Mount Zion, wrecked and ruined, jackals pace and prowl. And yet, God , you're sovereign still, your throne intact and eternal. So why do you keep forgetting us? Why dump us and leave us like this? Bring us back to you, God —we're ready to come back. Give us a fresh start. As it is, you've cruelly disowned us. You've been so very angry with us."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

skin: Lamentations 3:4, Lamentations 4:8, Job 30:30, Psalms 119:83

terrible famine: or, terrors, or storms, of famine

Reciprocal: Genesis 43:1 - General Deuteronomy 28:16 - in the field Deuteronomy 32:24 - burnt Job 19:20 - and I am Psalms 32:4 - moisture Jeremiah 14:2 - they Jeremiah 37:21 - until Jeremiah 52:6 - the famine Ezekiel 17:14 - the kingdom Revelation 6:5 - had

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Our skin was black like an oven, because of the terrible famine. Or "terrors [and horrors of] famine"; which are very dreadful and distressing: or, "the storms of famine"; see Psalms 11:6; or, "burning winds" u; such as are frequent in Africa and Asia; to which the famine is compared that was in Jerusalem, at the siege of it, both by the Chaldeans and Romans; and as an oven, furnace, or chimney becomes black by the smoke of the fire burnt in it, or under it; so the skins of the Jews became black through these burning winds and storms, or burnings of famine; see Lamentations 4:8. So Jarchi says the word has the signification of "burning"; for famine as it were burns up the bodies of men when most vehement.

u זלעפות רעב "horrorum famis", Montanus; "terrores, [vel] tremores", Vatablus; "procellas famis", Junius Tremellius, Piscator "exustiones", Pagninus, Calvin; "adustiones famis", Stockius, p. 281.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Our skin ... - Or, is fiery red like an oven because of the fever-blast “of famine.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 10. Our skin was black - because of the terrible famine. — Because of the searching winds that burnt up every green thing, destroying vegetation, and in consequence producing a famine.