Lamentations 5:10

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Our skin is hot as an oven, burned from the raging heat of famine.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lam 4:8 : 8 Now their appearance is darker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin clings to their bones; it has become as dry as wood.
  • Job 30:30 : 30 My skin grows black and peels off, and my bones burn with fever.
  • Lam 3:4 : 4 He has worn away my flesh and my skin; He has broken my bones.
  • Ps 119:83 : 83 For I have become like a wineskin in smoke, yet I have not forgotten Your statutes.

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  • Lam 5:8-9
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    8Slaves now rule over us, and there is no one to free us from their power.

    9We risk our lives to bring in our bread because of the sword in the wilderness.

  • Lam 4:8-10
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    8Now their appearance is darker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin clings to their bones; it has become as dry as wood.

    9Those slain by the sword are better off than those dying of hunger, wasting away, pierced by lack of the fruits of the field.

    10The compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food during the destruction of the daughter of my people.

  • Job 30:30-31
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    30My skin grows black and peels off, and my bones burn with fever.

    31My harp is turned to mourning and my flute to the sound of weeping.

  • 11Women in Zion were violated, virgins in the cities of Judah.

  • Song 1:5-6
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    5I am dark but lovely, daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.

    6Do not stare at me because I am dark, because the sun has darkened me. My mother’s sons were angry with me; they made me take care of the vineyards, but my own vineyard I have not kept.

  • Lam 5:3-6
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    3We have become orphans, without a father; our mothers are like widows.

    4We must pay for the water we drink; even our wood comes at a price.

    5We are pursued with burdens upon our necks; we are weary and find no rest.

    6We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.

  • Ps 102:3-5
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    3Do not hide your face from me in the day of my distress; incline your ear to me; on the day I call, answer me quickly.

    4For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones are burned like a hearth.

    5My heart is afflicted and withered like grass, for I forget to eat my food.

  • Jer 8:20-21
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    20The harvest is past, the summer has ended, and we are not saved.

    21Since my people are crushed, I am crushed; I mourn, and horror grips me.

  • 6Before them, nations writhe in anguish; every face turns pale.

  • 3They are gaunt from poverty and hunger; they gnaw the dry ground in desolate wastelands.

  • 16Streams dark with ice, where the snow conceals itself,

  • 10Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold! The supply is endless, the abundance of all treasures.

  • 17Because of this, our hearts are faint, and our eyes grow dim with tears.

  • Job 33:20-21
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    20Their life begins to loathe food, and their soul rejects even the most desirable meal.

    21Their flesh wastes away so that it can no longer be seen, and their bones, once hidden, now stick out.

  • 3You eat the flesh of my people, strip off their skin, break their bones, and chop them up like meat for the pot, like flesh in a cauldron.

  • 25Why do You hide Your face and forget our misery and oppression?

  • 12This bread of ours was warm when we took it as provisions from our houses on the day we set out to come to you, but now it is dry and crumbled.

  • 5Hungry and thirsty, their souls grew faint within them.

  • Job 24:10-11
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    10They go about naked without clothing, and they carry sheaves while hungry.

    11They press oil between the rows, they tread the wine presses, yet they go thirsty.

  • 2Judah mourns, and her gates languish; they sit on the ground in mourning, and the cry of Jerusalem rises up.

  • 5'Although we are of the same flesh and blood as our fellow Israelites, and our children are just like theirs, we have to subject our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters are already enslaved, and we are powerless to do anything about it, since our fields and vineyards now belong to others.'

  • 4He has worn away my flesh and my skin; He has broken my bones.

  • 13From on high he sent fire; it burns in my bones. He spread a net for my feet and turned me back. He made me desolate, faint all the day long.

  • 6By the fourth month, on the ninth day, the famine in the city had become so severe that there was no more food for the people of the land.

  • 17'In this way, they will lack bread and water, and they will be appalled at one another and waste away because of their iniquity.'

  • 10We grope along the wall like the blind; we grope as if we had no eyes. At midday, we stumble as if it were twilight; among the strong, we are like the dead.

  • 24We have heard the report about them, and our hands hang limp. Anguish has gripped us, pain like that of a woman in labor.

  • 20Surely our enemies are destroyed, and fire has consumed their wealth.

  • 17The seeds shrivel beneath their clods, the storehouses are desolate, the granaries are broken down, for the grain has dried up.

  • 5My body is clothed with worms and scabs; my skin cracks and festers.

  • 10Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in misery and chains.

  • 6The iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom, which was overthrown in a moment, with no hand turned to help her.

  • 19Our pursuers were swifter than eagles in the sky; they chased us over the mountains and lay in wait for us in the wilderness.

  • 6But now our appetite is gone; there’s nothing to see but this manna!

  • 6Their hearts are like an oven as they plot; all night their anger smolders, in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.

  • 7Your land is desolate, your cities are burned with fire; in your presence, foreigners devour your fields. It is desolate, as if overthrown by strangers.

  • 22Then they will look toward the earth and see only distress and darkness and fearful gloom, and they will be thrust into utter darkness.