Lamentations 5:10
Meaning, cross-references, and a prayer for Lamentations 5:10 — by Collins Asein
Quick Summary
Lamentations 5:10 is a verse from the book of Lamentations in the Old Testament. The KJV reads: "Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. terrible: or, terrors, or, storms" Below you will find the full verse text, cross-references, meaning, and a prayer based on this scripture.
Lamentations 5:10 — KJV
“Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. terrible: or, terrors, or, storms”
— Lamentations 5:10 (KJV)
Lamentations 5:10 in Context — About the Book of Lamentations
Lamentations is five funeral poems over fallen Jerusalem — grief given holy structure. At its exact center burns the flame the darkness never reaches: because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed; His mercies are new every morning. It teaches us to grieve with hope.
Cross-References for Lamentations 5:10
“Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.”
Shares key themes with Lamentations 5:10: skin, like, because
“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. blacker...: Heb. darker than blackness”
Shares key themes with Lamentations 5:10: skin, black, like
“And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.”
Shares key themes with Lamentations 5:10: skin, oven
“And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.”
Shares key themes with Lamentations 5:10: skin, oven
“And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn; because that the famine was so sore in all lands.”
Shares key themes with Lamentations 5:10: because, famine
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