Lamentations 5:10

“Our skin was black like an oven, because of the terrible famine.] Or “terrors [and horrors of] famine”; which are very dreadful and distressing: or, “the storms of famine”; (see <191106>Psalm 11:6 119:53); or, “burning winds” f140; such as are frequent in Africa and Asia; to which the famine is compared that was in Jerusalem, at the siege of it, both by the Chaldeans and Romans; and as an oven, furnace, or chimney becomes black by the smoke of the fire burnt in it, or under it; so the skins of the Jews became black through these burning winds and storms, or burnings of famine; (see <250408>Lamentations 4:8). So Jarchi says the word has the signification of “burning”; for famine as it were…”

“As an oven is scorched with too much fire, so our skin with the hot blast of famine (Margin, rightly, "storms," like the hot simoom). Hunger dries up the pores so that the skin becomes like as if it were scorched by the sun (Job 30:30; Psa 119:83).”

“Our skin ... - Or, is fiery red like an oven because of the fever-blast “of famine.” return to 'Top of Page'”

“5:10 There was a famine in the city during the siege (2 Kgs 25:3; Jer 37:21; 38:9; 52:6).”

“skin: Lam 3:4, Lam 4:8; Job 30:30; Psa 119:83 terrible famine: or, terrors, or storms, of famine Lamentations 5:11”