Lamentations 5:10
Lamentations · Old Testament · Chapter 5
“Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.”Lamentations 5:10
What Does Lamentations 5:10 Mean?
Lamentations 5:10 is found in the book of Lamentations, chapter 5, verse 10 of the Old Testament. This verse connects to 14 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.
Cross-References (14)
These passages are connected to Lamentations 5:10 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.
Lamentations 4:8“Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.”Job 30:30“My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.”Psalms 119:83“For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.”Genesis 43:1“And the famine was sore in the land.”Deuteronomy 28:16“Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.”Deuteronomy 32:24“They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.”Job 19:20“My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.”Psalms 32:4“For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.”Jeremiah 14:2“Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.”Jeremiah 37:21“Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers’ street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.”Jeremiah 52:6“And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.”Lamentations 3:4“My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.”Ezekiel 17:14“That the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping of his covenant it might stand.”Revelation 6:5“And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.”
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