American Standard Version
"Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine. "
— Lamentations 5:10, American Standard Version
“Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.”
“Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.”
“Our skin is hot as an oven due to a fever from hunger.”
“Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.”
“Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from need of food.”
“Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.”
Our fathers sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities.
Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.
Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.
The young men bare the mill; And the children stumbled under the wood.