King James Version with Apocrypha
"Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine."
— Lamentations 5:10, King James Version with Apocrypha
“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 fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.