Holy Scripture
Lamentations 5:10
A church father on this verse
“Then is considered in Verse 10 the effects of famine. As stated: "our skin is hot as an oven." That is, dried up by hunger. And: "with the burning heat of famine." As if being obsessed, and fleeing the famine, the people suffered a long time. Like the prophet Hosea 7:6 says: "For like an oven their hearts burn with in…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
10Our skin is blackened like an oven; They are convulsed, because of the storms of famine.
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8Servants have ruled over us: There is none to ransom us out of their hand.
9We shall bring in our bread with danger of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
— Lamentations 5:10 —
11They humbled the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.
12Princes were hanged up by their hands: the elders were not honored.