Lamentations 5:10 — Bible Verse (KJV)
“Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.”
Lamentations 5:10 — King James Version (KJV), 1611
Lamentations 5:10 in 6 Bible Translations
Read Lamentations 5:10 in the King James Version (KJV) and 5 other free, public-domain translations side by side.
Lamentations 5:10 WEB — World English Bible (2000)
“Our skin is black like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.”
Lamentations 5:10 — World English Bible
Lamentations 5:10 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)
“Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine. ”
Lamentations 5:10 — American Standard Version
Lamentations 5:10 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)
“Our skin as an oven hath been burning, Because of the raging of the famine.”
Lamentations 5:10 — Young's Literal Translation
Lamentations 5:10 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)
“Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the burning heat of the famine. ”
Lamentations 5:10 — Darby Translation
Lamentations 5:10 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)
“Our skinne was blacke like as an ouen because of the terrible famine.”
Lamentations 5:10 — Geneva Bible
Lamentations 5:10 in Context — Lamentations 5
8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
9 We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
11 They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
What Does Lamentations 5:10 Mean?
Lamentations 5:10 is a verse from the Book of Lamentations, part of the Old Testament. It appears in Lamentations chapter 5. Use The Living Sword's word-by-word study mode to explore every word in the original Hebrew and Aramaic.
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