Lamentations 5:10 (DRB)

Passage

Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.

Nearby Context

Lamentations 5:8 Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of their hand.

Lamentations 5:9 We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert.

Lamentations 5:10 Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.

Lamentations 5:11 They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda.

Lamentations 5:12 The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the persons of the ancients.

Study Lenses

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

The nearby context moves from verse 9's "We fetched our bread at the peril..." into verse 11's "They oppressed the women in Sion and...", so "skin" and "burnt" 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 "burnt" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.