King James Version
Lamentations 5:10 in the King James Version says “Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. terrible: or, terrors, or, storms” — study this verse from Lamentations chapter 5 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. terrible: or, terrors, or, storms”
Lamentations 5:10 · KJV
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. terrible: or, terrors, or, storms
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.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“was black”
H3648properly, to intertwine or contract, i.e., (by implication) to shrivel (as with heat); figuratively, to be deeply affected with passion (love or pity)
“because”
H6440the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi
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