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Lamentations 5:10

Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

KJV

Pellis nostra quasi clibanus exusta est, a facie tempestatum famis.

Vulgate

τὸ δέρμα ἡμῶν ὡς κλίβανος ἐπελιώθη, συνεσπάσθησαν ἀπὸ προσώπου καταιγίδων λιμοῦ.

LXX

Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.

ASV

עוֹרֵ֨/נוּ֙ כְּ/תַנּ֣וּר נִכְמָ֔רוּ מִ/פְּנֵ֖י זַלְעֲפ֥וֹת רָעָֽב

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

זַלְעֲפ֥וֹת
zl'pvt
noun · 3×
נִכְמְר֣וּ
nkmrv
verb · 4×
ע֔וֹר
'vr
noun · 98×
פְנֵ֣י
pny
noun · 2111×
רָעָ֖ב
r'b
noun · 101×
תַּנּ֔וּר
tnvr
noun · 13×

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Job 30:30 — My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
  • Lam 4:8 — 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.
  • Lam 4:8 — 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.
  • Ps 119:83 — For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.