Parallel Verses
King James 2000
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
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.
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 got our bread at the peril of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness. 10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. 11 They ravished the women in Zion, and the maidens in the cities of Judah.
Cross References
Lamentations 4:8
Their appearance is now blacker than coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaves to their bones; it is withered, it has become like a dry stick.
Job 30:30
My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
Psalm 119:83
For I am become like a wineskin in the smoke; yet do I not forget your statutes.
Lamentations 3:4
My flesh and my skin has he made old: he has broken my bones.