Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
Our skin blisters as from an oven, due to ravaging blasts of the 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.
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.
Amplified
Our skin is as hot as [the heat of] an oven
Because of the burning heat of [the fever 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 risk our lives to obtain our food, facing death in the desert. 10 Our skin blisters as from an oven, due to ravaging blasts of the famine. 11 They have raped women in Zion, young women in the towns of Judah.
Cross References
Lamentations 4:8
Now their faces are blacker than coal; they are unrecognized in the streets. Their skin clings to their bones; it has become dry like a stick.
Job 30:30
My skin turns black all over me; and my bones seem burned from the heat.
Psalm 119:83
Though I have become like a water skin dried by smoke, I have not forgotten your statutes.
Lamentations 3:4
He made my flesh and skin prematurely old; he broke my bones.