Lamentations 5:10

KJV1611 – Modern English

Our skin is black as an oven because of the terrible famine.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lam 4:8 : 8 Their appearance is blacker than coal; they are not recognized in the streets; their skin clings to their bones; it has withered, it has 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 He has made old; He has broken my bones.
  • Ps 119:83 : 83 For I have become like a wineskin in smoke, yet I do not forget Your statutes.

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