Lamentations 5:10

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from need of food.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lam 4:8 : 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 : 30 My skin is black and dropping off me; and my bones are burning with the heat of my disease.
  • Lam 3:4 : 4 My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken.
  • Ps 119:83 : 83 For I have become like a wine-skin black with smoke; but I still keep the memory of your rules.

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  • Job 30:30-31
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    30 My skin is black and dropping off me; and my bones are burning with the heat of my disease.

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    3 They are wasted for need of food, biting the dry earth; their only hope of life is in the waste land.

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    3 Like meat they take the flesh of my people for their food, skinning them and crushing their bones, yes, cutting them up as if for the pot, like flesh inside the cooking-pot.

  • Ps 44:25
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