Lamentations 5:9
We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
Lamentations 5:9 in other translations
| BSB | We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness. |
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| WEB | We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness. |
| ASV | We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness. |
| YLT | With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness. |
| DARBY | We have to get our bread at the risk of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness. |
| BBE | We put our lives in danger to get our bread, because of the sword of the waste land. |
| Webster | We procured our bread with the peril of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness. |
What does Lamentations 5:9 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Lamentations 5:1-16
The Jewish nation supplicating the Divine favour. Verses 1-16 Is any afflicted? Let him pray; and let him in prayer pour out his complaint to God. The people of God do so here; they complain not of evils feared, but of evils felt. If penitent and patient under what we suffer for the sins of our fathers, we may expect that He who punishes, will return in mercy to us. They acknowledge, Woe unto us that we have sinned!…
Lamentations 5:9 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Lamentations 5:9
- Ezekiel 4:16-17
Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment: That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.
- Ezekiel 12:18-19
Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness; And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord God of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.
- Jeremiah 40:9-12
And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan sware unto them and to their men, saying, Fear not to serve the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you. As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah to serve the Chaldeans, which will come unto us: but ye, gather ye wine, and summer fruits, and oil, and put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that ye have taken. Likewise when all the Jews that were in Moab, and among the Ammonites, and in Edom, and that were in all the countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan; Even all the Jews returned out of all places whither they were driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, unto Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruits very much.
- Jeremiah 41:18
Because of the Chaldeans: for they were afraid of them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor in the land.
- Jeremiah 41:1-10
Now it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, and the princes of the king, even ten men with him, came unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they did eat bread together in Mizpah. Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men that were with him, and smote Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan with the sword, and slew him, whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land. Ishmael also slew all the Jews that were with him, even with Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans that were found there, and the men of war. And it came to pass the second day after he had slain Gedaliah, and no man knew it, …
- Jeremiah 42:14
Saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell:
- Judges 6:11
And there came an angel of the Lord, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abi–ezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.
- Jeremiah 42:16
Then it shall come to pass, that the sword, which ye feared, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, whereof ye were afraid, shall follow close after you there in Egypt; and there ye shall die.
- 2 Samuel 23:17
And he said, Be it far from me, O Lord, that I should do this: is not this the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives? therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mighty men.
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Context
- Lamentations 5:8
Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
- Lamentations 5:9
We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
- Lamentations 5:10
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
Lamentations 5:9 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Con peligro de nuestras vidas traíamos nuestro pan delante del cuchillo del desierto. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Nous recueillons notre pain au péril de notre vie, à cause de l’épée du désert. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Wir holen unser Brot mit Gefahr unseres Lebens, wegen des Schwertes der Wüste. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | In animabus nostris afferebamus panem nobis, a facie gladii in deserto. |