Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
"Princes were hanged up by their hand"  (Lamentations 5:12).  Recent translations read, "Princes were hung up by their hands,"[8] and, "Our leaders have been taken and hanged."[9]  The clause was also translated, "Princes were hanged by the hand of the enemy."[10]  Evidently, there is some uncertainty as to the exact meaning.  Hanging a victim by his hands was a form of crucifixion.  Dummelow also mentioned a custom of those times in which, "They impaled bodies after death in order to expose them to the most utter contempt possible."[11]