Parallel Verses
Amplified
Our skin is as hot as [the heat of] an oven
Because of the burning heat of [the fever of] famine.
New American Standard Bible
Because of
King James Version
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
Holman Bible
from the ravages of hunger.
International Standard Version
Our skin blisters as from an oven, due to ravaging blasts of the famine.
A Conservative Version
Our skin is black like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.
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.
Darby Translation
Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the burning heat of the famine.
Julia Smith Translation
Our skin was scorched as a furnace from the face of the violent heat of famine.
King James 2000
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Our skin is hot like an oven because of the scorching famine.
Modern King James verseion
Our skin is hot like an oven because of the fever heat of famine.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Our skin is as it had been burnt in an oven, for very sore hunger.
NET Bible
Our skin is hot as an oven due to a fever from hunger.
New Heart English Bible
Our skin is hot like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.
The Emphasized Bible
Our skin, as with a furnace, is scorched, because of the hot winds of famine.
Webster
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
Our skin as an oven hath been burning, Because of the raging of the famine.
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 5:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Request For Mercy
9
We get our bread at the risk of our lives
Because of the sword [of the Arabs] in the wilderness [who may attack if we go out to harvest the crop].
Our skin is as hot as [the heat of] an oven
Because of the burning heat of [the fever of] famine.
They ravished the women in Zion,
The virgins in the cities of Judah.
Cross References
Lamentations 4:8
Their appearance is [now] blacker than soot [because of the prolonged famine];
They are not recognized in the streets;
Their skin clings to their bones;
It is withered, and it has become [dry] like wood.
Job 30:30
“My skin falls from me in blackened flakes,
And my bones are burned with fever.
Psalm 119:83
For I have become like a wineskin [blackened and shriveled] in the smoke [in which it hangs],
Yet I do not forget Your statutes.
Lamentations 3:4
He has caused my flesh and my skin to waste away;
He has shattered my bones.