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, 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; Psalms 119:83).
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Lamentations 5:10
10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terriblea famine.