Lamentations 5:10
KJV
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
NIV
Our skin is hot as an oven, feverish from hunger.
Changing ‘black’ to words like ‘hot,’ ‘burned,’ or ‘feverish’ removes the visual sign of God’s judgment that is a biblical motif (see Job 30:30, Jeremiah 14:2). ‘Black’ represents the outward, visible result of famine and divine wrath; substituting it with ‘hot’ or ‘feverish’ makes the affliction internal and subjective, softening the reality of God’s curse and the typology of darkness as judgment.
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