Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Our skin is hot as an oven, feverish from hunger. New Living Translation The famine has blackened our skin as though baked in an oven. English Standard Version Our skin is hot as an oven with the burning heat of famine. Berean Standard Bible Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger. King James Bible Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. New King James Version Our skin is hot as an oven, Because of the fever of famine. New American Standard Bible Our skin has become as hot as an oven, Because of the ravages of hunger. NASB 1995 Our skin has become as hot as an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine. NASB 1977 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 oven Because of the burning heat of famine. Amplified Bible Our skin is as hot as [the heat of] an oven Because of the burning heat of [the fever of] famine. Christian Standard Bible Our skin is as hot as an oven from the ravages of hunger. Holman Christian Standard Bible Our skin is as hot as an oven from the ravages of hunger. American Standard Version Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine. Aramaic Bible in Plain English Our skins were burned as by a furnace and they became pale in the wretchedness of famine Brenton Septuagint Translation Our skin is blackened like an oven; they are convulsed, because of the storms of famine. Contemporary English Version Our skin is scorched from fever and hunger. Douay-Rheims Bible Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine. English Revised Version Our skin is black like an oven because of the burning heat of famine. GOD'S WORD® Translation Our skin is as hot as an oven from the burning heat of starvation. Good News Translation Hunger has made us burn with fever until our skin is as hot as an oven. International Standard Version Our skin blisters as from an oven, due to ravaging blasts of the famine. JPS Tanakh 1917 Our skin is hot like an oven Because of the burning heat of famine. Literal Standard Version Our skin as an oven has been burning, | Because of the raging of the famine. Majority Standard Bible Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger. New American Bible Our skin heats up like an oven, from the searing blasts of famine. NET Bible Our skin is hot as an oven due to a fever from hunger. New Revised Standard Version Our skin is black as an oven from the scorching heat of famine. New Heart English Bible Our skin is hot 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. World English Bible Our skin is black like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine. Young's Literal Translation Our skin as an oven hath been burning, Because of the raging of the famine. Additional Translations ... Context A Prayer for Restoration…9We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness. 10Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger. 11Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.… Cross References Job 30:30 My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever. Lamentations 4:8 But 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. Treasury of Scripture Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. skin Lamentations 3:4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones. 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. Jump to Previous Black Burning Famine Feverish Food Heat Heated Hot Hunger Need Oven Raging Skin TerribleJump to Next Black Burning Famine Feverish Food Heat Heated Hot Hunger Need Oven Raging Skin TerribleLamentations 5 1. A complaint of Zion in prayer unto God.(10) Our skin was black . . .-Better, fiery red, and for "terrible famine," the fever-blast of famine. The words paint the hot fever of hunger rather than the livid paleness of exhaustion.Verse 10. - Was black like an oven. The translation is misleading; there is no real parallel to Lamentations 4:8. Render, gloweth. It is the feverish glow produced by gnawing hunger which is meant. The terrible famine; rather, the burning heat of hunger. Hariri, the humoristic author of the cycle of stories in rhymed Arabic prose and verse, called 'Makamat,' puts into the mouth of his ne'er do well Abu Seid very similar words to describe a famished man - "Dess Eingeweide brennend nach Erquickung sehrein, Hebrew Our skinעוֹרֵ֙נוּ֙ (‘ō·w·rê·nū) Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common plural Strong's 5785: Skin, hide, leather is as hot נִכְמָ֔רוּ (niḵ·mā·rū) Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person common plural Strong's 3648: To intertwine, contract, to shrivel, to be deeply affected with passion as an oven כְּתַנּ֣וּר (kə·ṯan·nūr) Preposition-k | Noun - common singular Strong's 8574: (portable) stove, firepot because of מִפְּנֵ֖י (mip·pə·nê) Preposition-m | Noun - common plural construct Strong's 6440: The face the burning זַלְעֲפ֥וֹת (zal·‘ă·p̄ō·wṯ) Noun - feminine plural construct Strong's 2152: A glow, a famine of famine. רָעָֽב׃ (rā·‘āḇ) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 7458: Famine, hunger Links Lamentations 5:10 NIVLamentations 5:10 NLT Lamentations 5:10 ESV Lamentations 5:10 NASB Lamentations 5:10 KJV Lamentations 5:10 BibleApps.com Lamentations 5:10 Biblia Paralela Lamentations 5:10 Chinese Bible Lamentations 5:10 French Bible Lamentations 5:10 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Lamentations 5:10 Our skin is black like an oven (Lam. 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