Lamentations 5:10
“Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.”
Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
Cross-References
“Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.”
“Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.”
“They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.”
“My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.”
“My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.”