Lamentations 5:10

World English Bible (2000)

Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lam 4:8 : 8 Their appearance is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: Their skin clings to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
  • Job 30:30 : 30 My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.
  • Lam 3:4 : 4 My flesh and my skin has he made old; he has broken my bones.
  • Ps 119:83 : 83 For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke. I don't forget your statutes.

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