Lamentations 5:10
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
Context
This verse from Lamentations Chapter 5 connects to 4 cross-references. The final lament is a communal prayer that lacks the alphabetic acrostic of the previous four poems. The community cries for God to remember: their inheritance has been turned over to strangers, women have been violated, and old men sit …
Bản dịch khác
Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
Our skin as an oven hath been burning, Because of the raging of the famine.
Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from need of food.
Tham chiếu chéo
My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.
Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; …
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.