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 Parallel

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 Historical context

Jeremiah 14:2 depicts Judah mourning under famine — the same national crisis causing the feverish skin described in Lamentations.

Jeremiah 52:6 Historical context

Jeremiah 52:6 provides the historical context—the severe famine during the Babylonian siege that caused the burning heat described here.

Job 19:20 Parallel

Job 19:20 describes bones clinging to skin from emaciation — another extreme physical suffering, though not specifically fever.