Lamentations 5:10 meaning and explanation

Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.

Lamentations 5:10, Berean Standard Bible

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The speaker is the community of Judah, likely in the years after Jerusalem fell to Babylon in 586 BC. The whole chapter is a prayer of corporate lament, and this verse sits within a list of sufferings: hunger, thirst, forced labor, and assault.

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