Bible verse
Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.
Lamentations 5:10 · BSB
The verses around it, from Lamentations 5.
6 We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.
7 Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.
8 Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands.
9 We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.
10 Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.
11 Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.
12 Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.
13 Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.
14 The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.
KJV
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
ASV
Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
ERV
Our skin is black like an oven because of the burning heat of famine.
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