Lamentations 5:10

Modern

Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.

Traditional

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

Literal

Our skin like an oven grows hot from the face of the burning heat of famine.

Latin

Pellis nostra quasi clibanus exusta est, a facie tempestatum famis.

Hebrew

English

Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.

There was a famine in Jerusalem during the siege, and the people ran out of food (2 Kings 25:3; Jeremiah 37:21; 38:9; 52:6).

This chapter is a sincere prayer asking for restoration (compare Daniel 9:4–19).

Lamentations 4:8
But now their appearance is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as a stick.
Job 30:30
My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.
Psalm 119:83
Though I am like a wineskin dried up by smoke, I do not forget Your statutes.
Lamentations 3:4
He has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered my bones.