Lamentations 5:10 Meaning
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
Context Explained
8Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
9We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
10Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
11They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
12Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
Key Themes
Related Cross References
Matthew 5:6
Jesus speaks of those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, contrasting the physical famine here.
Revelation 7:16
This verse promises that in heaven, there will be no hunger or thirst, contrasting the suffering described.
Isaiah 49:10
This verse assures that God's people will not suffer hunger, echoing the hope of divine provision.
Source: Lamentations 5:10