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Lamentations 5:10
Lamentations 5:10 is verse 10 of Lamentations chapter 5, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.
King James Version
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
World English Bible
Our skin is black like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.
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Lamentations 5:8–12 · Berean Standard Bible
8 Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands.
9 We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.
10 Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.
11 Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.
12 Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Lamentations 3:4He has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered my bones.
Lamentations 4:8But now their appearance is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as a stick.
Job 30:30My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.
Psalms 119:83Though I am like a wineskin dried up by smoke, I do not forget Your statutes.