Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
General references
Bible References
Skin
Lamentations 3:4
He has caused my flesh and my skin to waste away;
He has shattered my bones.
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.
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.
“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.
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].