Lamentations 5:10
King James Version
Translation: KJV
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8Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.Select Lamentations 5:8
9We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.Select Lamentations 5:9
10Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.Select Lamentations 5:10
11They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.Select Lamentations 5:11
12Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.Select Lamentations 5:12
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5:10 Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
ASV
5:10 Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
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