NET Bible
"Our skin is hot as an oven due to a fever from hunger."
— Lamentations 5:10, NET Bible
“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 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 forefathers sinned and are dead, but we suffer their punishment.
Slaves rule over us; there is no one to rescue us from their power.
At the risk of our lives we get our food because robbers lurk in the wilderness.
Our skin is hot as an oven due to a fever from hunger.
They raped women in Zion, virgins in the towns of Judah.
Princes were hung by their hands; elders were mistreated.
The young men perform menial labor; boys stagger from their labor.