Lamentations 5:10 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Lamentations 5:1-16

Isa. any afflicted? let him pray; and let him in prayer pour out his complaint to God, and make known before him his trouble. The people of God do so here; being overwhelmed with grief, they give vent to their sorrows at the footstool of the throne of grace, and so give themselves ease. They complain not of evils feared, but of evils felt: ?Remember what has come upon us, Lam. 5:1. What was of old threatened against us, and was long in the coming, has now at length come upon us, and we are... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 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 Psalm 11:6 ; or, "burning winds" F21 זלעפות רעב "horrorum famis", Montanus; "terrores, vel tremores", Vatablus; "procellas famis", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; "exustiones", Pagninus, Calvin; "adustiones famis", Stockius, p. 281. ; such as are frequent in Africa and Asia; to which the famine is... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 5:10

Our skin was black - because of the terrible famine - Because of the searching winds that burnt up every green thing, destroying vegetation, and in consequence producing a famine. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 5:10

Verse 10 Some read, “for tremors;” literally, “from the face of tremors.” Jerome renders it, “tempests,” but the word “burnings” is the most suitable; for he says that their skins were darkened, and he compares them to an oven. This metaphor often occurs in Scripture, “Though ye have been as among pots in the smoke, and deformed by blackness, yet your wings shall shine.” (Psalms 68:14.) God says that his people had contracted blackness, as though they had touched smoky pots, because they had... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 5:1-18

INSULT UPON INSULT HAS BEEN HEAPED UPON JERUSALEM . read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 5:10

Was black like an oven. The translation is misleading; there is no real parallel to Lamentations 4:8 . Render, gloweth. It is the feverish glow produced by gnawing hunger which is meant. The terrible famine; rather, the burning heat of hunger. Hariri, the humoristic author of the cycle of stories in rhymed Arabic prose and verse, called 'Makamat,' puts into the mouth of his ne'er do well Abu Seid very similar words to describe a famished man— "Dess Eingeweide brennend nach... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Lamentations 5:10

Our skin ... - Or, is fiery red like an oven because of the fever-blast “of famine.” read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Lamentations 5:7-10

Lamentations 5:7-10. 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 suffer in the most grievous degree: see note on Jeremiah 31:29. The expression, is not, or, are not, is often used of those who are departed out of this world, Genesis 42:13. Servants have ruled over us Servants to the great men among the Chaldeans, and other strangers, are become our masters, Nehemiah 5:15. We gat our... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Lamentations 5:1-22

A prayer for mercy (5:1-22)This poem was apparently written in Judah some time after the fall of Jerusalem. Only the people of no use to Babylon were left in the land, and this poem reflects the hardships they faced (cf. Jeremiah 52:16).In a plea to God for mercy, the people remind him of their present shame (5:1). Death has broken up their families, and the invaders have taken over their houses and lands (2-3). They live and work like slaves in their own country, and have to buy water from... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Lamentations 5:10

FURTHER DEPLORABLE CONDITIONS OF GOD'S PEOPLE"Our skin is black like an oven,Because of the burning heat of famine.They ravished the women in Zion,The virgins in the cities of Judah.Princes were hanged by their hand:The faces of elders were not honored.The young men bare the mill;And the children stumbled under the wood.The elders have ceased from the gate,The young men from their music.""They ravished the women ... the virgins of the cities of Judah" (Lamentations 5:11). This is an... read more