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.
Related Verses
“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.”
“The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
“We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.”
“All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O Lord, and consider; for I am become vile.”
“He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.”