Lamentaciones 5:10

10 El hambre hizo ennegrecer nuestra piel
como si hubiera sido quemada en el horno.

Lamentaciones 5:10 Meaning and 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 ( Psalms 11:6 ) ( 119:53 ) ; or, "burning winds" ^F21; such as are frequent in Africa and Asia; to which the famine is compared that was in Jerusalem, at the siege of it, both by the Chaldeans and Romans; and as an oven, furnace, or chimney becomes black by the smoke of the fire burnt in it, or under it; so the skins of the Jews became black through these burning winds and storms, or burnings of famine; see ( Lamentations 4:8 ) . So Jarchi says the word has the signification of "burning"; for famine as it were burns up the bodies of men when most vehement.

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FOOTNOTES:

F21 (ber twpelz) "horrorum famis", Montanus; "terrores, [vel] tremores", Vatablus; "procellas famis", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; "exustiones", Pagninus, Calvin; "adustiones famis", Stockius, p. 281.

Lamentaciones 5:10 In-Context

8 Los esclavos son ahora nuestros amos;
no ha quedado nadie para rescatarnos.

9 Buscamos comida a riesgo de nuestra vida
porque la violencia domina el campo.

10 El hambre hizo ennegrecer nuestra piel
como si hubiera sido quemada en el horno.

11 Nuestros enemigos violaron a las mujeres de Jerusalén
y a las muchachas de las ciudades de Judá.

12 Cuelgan a nuestros príncipes de las manos,
y tratan a nuestros ancianos con desprecio.