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 worn out my flesh and skin, he has broken my bones.
Lamentations 4:8
[Now] their appearance is blacker than soot, they are not recognized in the streets; their skin has shriveled on their bones, it has become dry like wood.
Job 30:30
My skin turns black on me, and my bones burn with heat.
Psalm 119:83
For I have become like a wineskin in [the] smoke, [yet] I have not forgotten your statutes.

General references

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