Job 30:30; Lamentations 3:4; Lamentations 4:8; Psalms 119:83
Our skin ... - Or, is fiery red like an oven because of the fever-blast “of famine.”
Lamentations 5. A Prayer. This chapter differs much from the previous four. It is not a Lament, but one long pleading; and it is not the chant of a...
Some read, “for tremors;” literally, “from the face of tremors.” Jerome renders it, “tempests,” but the word “burnings” is the most suitable; f...
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. Our skin was black - because of the terrible famine - Because of the searching winds...
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. Our skin was black like an oven - as an oven is scorched with too much fire,...
Zion's earnest Petition for Deliverance This final poem is not so much an elegy as a prayer or meditation. The tone is more calm and spiritual tha...
Black] RM 'hot.' Terrible famine] RV 'burning heat of famine.'
Our skin was black... -Better, fiery red, and for “terrible famine,” the fever-blast of famine. The words paint the hot fever of hunger rather t...
AN APPEAL FOR GOD'S COMPASSION Lamentations 5:1-10 UNLIKE its predecessors, the fifth and last elegy is not an acrostic. There is little to be...
The final poem is an appeal out of sorrow to Jehovah. Speaking on behalf of the whole nation, the prophet called on Jehovah to remember. He described...
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne th...
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,...
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. Ver. 10. Our skin was black like an oven. ] Or, As a chimney, Isa 31:9 being still...
Our fathers have sinned, and are not Death hath secured our fathers from these evils, though they had sinned; but the punishment they escaped, we s...
An Appeal to God; Complicated Sorrows. B. C. 588....
The want of bread caused leanness, and paleness, and ill colours in their faces.
Our skin is stirred up (or ‘black') like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine. The starvation conditions in which they were living had ha...
EXEGETICAL NOTES. — Lamentations 5:10 . The bread, which was obtained at the risk of their lives, was not enough in quantity to nourish them. Ou...
REFLECTIONS . Jeremiah in this last elegy continues the subject in more minute details; and having no hope for the present, he consoles himself with...
Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us. An appeal for God’s compassion The prayer opens with a striking phrase--“Remember, O Lord,” etc. It can...
EXPOSITION Lamentations 5:1-25 INSULT UPON INSULT HAS BEEN HEAPED UPON JERUSALEM . Lamentations 5:2 Our inheritance....
Description of the Present Misery
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine, glowing with the heat of fever brought on by their condition.
10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terriblea famine.