World English Bible
Lamentations 5:10
“Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.”
Verse in context — Lamentations 5
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Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
9
We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
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Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
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They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.
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Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.
About Lamentations
Poems of grief over Jerusalem’s destruction.
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