Lamentations 5:10 (DBY)

Passage

Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the burning heat of the famine.

Nearby Context

Lamentations 5:8 Bondmen rule over us: there is no deliverer out of their hand.

Lamentations 5:9 We have to get our bread at the risk of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.

Lamentations 5:10 Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the burning heat of the famine.

Lamentations 5:11 They have ravished the women in Zion, the maids in the cities of Judah.

Lamentations 5:12 Princes were hanged up by their hand; the faces of elders were not honoured.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "skin", "gloweth", "like", "oven", "burning", "heat", and "famine". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "skin" and "gloweth", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 9's "We have to get our bread at..." into verse 11's "They have ravished the women in Zion...", so "skin" and "gloweth" belong inside that flow. In Lamentations context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "skin" and "gloweth" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.