Lamentations 5:10


Our skin is as hot as [the heat of] an oven
Because of the burning heat of [the fever of] famine.

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.

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Summary

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

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Bible References

Skin

Lamentations 3:4

He has caused my flesh and my skin to waste away;
He has shattered my bones.
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.

General references

Genesis 43:1
Now the famine was very severe in the land [of Canaan].