Lamentations 5:10
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
Cross-reference
In Lamentations 4:8, the same famine causes skin to blacken and shrivel — a parallel physical description of the siege's toll.
Job 30:30 echoes burning skin and bone heat — mirroring the feverish affliction from famine in Lamentations 5:10.
Deuteronomy 32:24 warns of wasting hunger and plague — the same divine judgment by famine and disease seen in Lamentations 5:10.
Jeremiah 14:2 depicts Judah mourning under famine — the same national crisis causing the feverish skin described in Lamentations.
Jeremiah 52:6 provides the historical context—the severe famine during the Babylonian siege that caused the burning heat described here.
Job 19:20 describes bones clinging to skin from emaciation — another extreme physical suffering, though not specifically fever.