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Lamentations 5:10–11
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Lamentations 5:10
10Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
10*‖Our skinne was blacke like an ouen, because of the terrible famine.
- Or, terrors or stormes.
- Psal.11.38
Lamentations 5:11
11They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
11They rauished the women in Zion, and the maides in the cities of Iudah.
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DEFINED WORDS
Lamentations 5:10
The natural outer covering of a person or animal; the hide or exterior covering; also, to strip off the skin or hide.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Black or darkened in appearance, as described in the verse.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Similar or of the same kind; in the same manner; likely; or, as a verb, to please.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828
An oven used as a comparison for intense, consuming heat or darkened skin.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
For the reason that; since.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Frightful; adapted to excite terror; dreadful; formidable.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
DEFINED WORDS
Lamentations 5:11
Sexually violated by force.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Unmarried young women, female attendants, or female servants, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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From verse 10
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Open the full verse study8Their 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.
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Open the full verse study30My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
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Open the full verse study83For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.
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Open the full verse study4My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
From verse 11
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Open the full verse study16Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
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Open the full verse study2For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
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Open the full verse study30Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.
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