Lamentations 3:4

ב (Bet)

3:4 He has made my mortal skin ¹  waste away;

he has broken my bones.

Lamentations 5:10

5:10 Our skin is hot as an oven

due to a fever from hunger. ² 

[3:4]  ¹ tn Heb “my flesh and my skin.” The two nouns joined with ו (vav), בְשָׂרִי וְעוֹרִי (basari vÿ’ori, “my flesh and my skin”), form a nominal hendiadys: the first functions adjectivally and the second retains its full nominal sense: “my mortal skin.”

[5:10]  ² tn Heb “because of the burning heat of famine.”