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Selected Verse: Lamentations 5:10 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| La 5:10 |
King James |
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| As an oven is scorched with too much fire, so our skin with the hot blast of famine (Margin, rightly, "storms," like the hot simoom). Hunger dries up the pores so that the skin becomes like as if it were scorched by the sun (Job 30:30; Psa 119:83). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| Our skin ... - Or, is fiery red like an oven because of the fever-blast "of famine." |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Our skin was black - because of the terrible famine - Because of the searching winds that burnt up every green thing, destroying vegetation, and in consequence producing a famine. |
83 For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.
30 My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.