Our skin was black like an oven Because of the terrible famine.
Our skin glows and is parched as from [the heat of] an oven because of the burning heat of [the fever of] famine.
Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
Our skin is as hot as an oven because of the burning heat of famine.
Our skin was burned, as if by an oven, before the face of the tempest of the famine.
Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.
