Catholic Public Domain Version
"Our skin was burned, as if by an oven, before the face of the tempest of the famine. "
— Lamentations 5:10, Catholic Public Domain 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 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 have sinned, and are not. And we have carried their iniquities.
Servants have become rulers over us. There was no one to redeem us from their hand.
We obtained our bread at the risk of our lives, before the face of the sword, in the wilderness.
Our skin was burned, as if by an oven, before the face of the tempest of the famine.
They humiliated the women in Zion and the virgins in the cities of Judah.
The leaders were suspended by their hand. They were not ashamed before the faces of the elders.
They have sexually abused the adolescents, and the children were corrupted in the wood.