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
My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken.
Lamentations 4:8
Their face is blacker than night; in the streets no one has knowledge of them: their skin is hanging on their bones, they are dry, they have become like wood.
Job 30:30
My skin is black and dropping off me; and my bones are burning with the heat of my disease.
Psalm 119:83
For I have become like a wine-skin black with smoke; but I still keep the memory of your rules.

General references

Genesis 43:1
Now the land was in bitter need of food.

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain