Parallel Verses
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.
International Standard Version
Our skin blisters as from an oven, due to ravaging blasts of the famine.
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 get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.
10
Because of
Cross References
Lamentations 4:8
Now their face is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets; their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as wood.
Job 30:30
My skin turns black and falls from 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.
Lamentations 3:4
He has made my flesh and my skin waste away; he has broken my bones;