Lamentations 5:10

Authorized King James Version (1611)

Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lam 4:8 : 8 Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
  • Job 30:30 : 30 My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
  • Lam 3:4 : 4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
  • Ps 119:83 : 83 ¶ For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; [yet] do I not forget thy statutes.

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