Lamentations 5:10

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

"Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine." - Lamentations 5:10
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What does Lamentations 5:10 mean?

Lamentations 5:10 (KJV) reads, "Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine." The book of Lamentations is a collection of five poetic laments or dirges over the destruction of Jerusalem. It was traditionally ascribed to the prophet Jeremiah, who was said to…

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Refined in the Fires of Famine

Lamentations 5:10 states, "Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine." This poignant verse captures the ravages of extreme hardship and the physical manifestations of suffering. As we meditate on this scripture, we delve into the depths of despair that the…

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A Prayer of Acknowledgment and Hope Amidst Affliction

O Sovereign Lord, Creator of heavens and earth, we humbly gather our hearts before Thee today, mindful of Thy everlasting presence and infinite mercy. We come to lift our voices in solemn prayer, reflecting on the profound truth found in Lamentations 5:10: "Our skin was black…

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Lamentations 5:10 - "Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine."
Lamentations 5:5 - "Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest."
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 5:2 - "Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens."
Lamentations 5:17 - "For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim."
Lamentations 5:7 - "Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities."
Lamentations 5:15 - "The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning."
Lamentations 5:18 - "Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it."
Lamentations 5:6 - "We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread."
Lamentations 5:13 - "They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood."
Lamentations 5:12 - "Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured."
Lamentations 3:10 - "He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places."
Lamentations 3:5 - "He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail."
Lamentations 5:14 - "The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick."
Lamentations 5:9 - "We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness."
Lamentations 5:19 – "You, Lord, reign forever; your throne endures from generation to generation."
Lamentations 5:19 - "Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation."
"Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest." - Lamentations 5:5
Lamentations 5:8 - "Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand."
Lamentations 5:1 - "Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach."
Lamentations 5:22 - "But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us."
Lamentations 4:5 - "They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills."
Lamentations 5:4 - "We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us."
Lamentations 5:20 - "Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?"
Lamentations 5:16 - "The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!"
Ezekiel 2:10 - "And he spread it before me; and it was written within and without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe."
Lamentations 4:10 - "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 are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows." - Lamentations 5:3