Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
      5. Those who used to be feasted are now famished (Lamentations 5:10; Lamentations 5:10): Our skin was black like an oven, dried and parched too, because of the terrible famine, the storms of famine (so the word is); for, though famine comes gradually upon a people, yet it comes violently, and bears down all before it, and there is no resisting it; and this also is their disgrace; hence we read of the reproach of famine, which in captivity their received among the heathen, Ezekiel 36:30.