Visualize a scene inspired by the historical period referenced in the biblical verse Lamentations 5:10: 'Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.' Capture the struggle, dismay, and despair surrounding a terrible famine. Be sure to reflect the visual symbol of 'skin black like an oven', perhaps by illustrating people darkened by the unyielding sun or by having been exposed to harsh conditions of the environment. As the image is inspired by historical events, use the artistic elements typically seen in historical paintings like detailed human figures, dramatic lighting, and somber color palette. Render this scene visibly using techniques commonly found in digital artistry, like clean lines, vibrant colors, and precise detailing.
Lamentations 5:10 - "Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine."
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2 Chronicles 35:25 - "¶ And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations."
Lamentations 3:23 - "They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness."
Lamentations 5:11 - "They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah."
Lamentations 5:3 - "We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows."
Lamentations 3:36 - "To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not."
Lamentations 5:17 - "For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim."
Lamentations 3:38 - "Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?"
Lamentations 3:47 - "Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction."
Lamentations 5:2 - "Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens."
Lamentations 3:27 - "It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth."
Lamentations 3:19 - "Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall."
Lamentations 3:50 - "Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven."
Lamentations 3:34 - "To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,"
Lamentations 3:35 - "To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,"
Lamentations 3:21 - "This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope."
Lamentations 3:46 - "All our enemies have opened their mouths against us."
Lamentations 3:63 - "Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick."
Lamentations 5:7 - "Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities."
Lamentations 3:49 - "Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,"
Lamentations 3:29 - "He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope."
Lamentations 3:20 - "My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me."
Lamentations 3:33 - "For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men."
Lamentations 3:2 - "He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light."
Lamentations 3:45 - "Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people."
Lamentations 3:37 - "¶ Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?"
Lamentations 3:14 - "I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day."
Ezekiel 19:14 - "And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation."
Psalms 78:64 - "Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation."
Lamentations 5:18 - "Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it."