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.

Read the full chapter: Lamentations 5 →

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.

Also explore: Bible verses by topic | Read the full Bible free