A Prayer for Restoration
Lamentations 5:10
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.
- KJV
- Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.terrible: or, terrors, or, storms
- WEB
- Our skin is black like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.
- ASV
- Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
- LSV
- Our skin as an oven has been burning, || Because of the raging of the famine.
- YLT
- Our skin as an oven hath been burning, Because of the raging of the famine.
- DBY
- Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the burning heat of the famine.
- DRC
- Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.
- GNV
- Our skinne was blacke like as an ouen because of the terrible famine.
- JPS
- Our skin is hot like an oven because of the burning heat of famine.
- LXXE
- Our skin is blackened like an oven; they are convulsed, because of the storms of famine.
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- עוֹרֵ֨נוּ֙ כְּתַנּ֣וּר נִכְמָ֔רוּ מִפְּנֵ֖י זַלְעֲפ֥וֹת רָעָֽב׃
- LXX-Br
- Τὸ δέρμα ἡμῶν ὡς κλίβανος ἐπελιώθη, συνεσπάσθησαν ἀπὸ προσώπου καταιγίδων λιμοῦ.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- Lamentations 4:8But now their appearance is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as a stick.
- Job 30:30My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.
- Psalms 119:83Though I am like a wineskin dried up by smoke, I do not forget Your statutes.
- Lamentations 3:4He has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered my bones.
From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).