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Lamentations 5:10

Lamentations chapter 5 · verse 10 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.9We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

v.10This passage

v.11They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn 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.

  • Psalms 119:83

    For I am become like a wine-skin 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.

  • Job 30:30

    My skin is black, and fallethfrom me, And my bones are burned with heat.