Lamentations 5:9
We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
Context
This verse from Lamentations Chapter 5 connects to 10 cross-references. The final lament is a communal prayer that lacks the alphabetic acrostic of the previous four poems. The community cries for God to remember: their inheritance has been turned over to strangers, women have been violated, and old men sit …
Other Translations
We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
We put our lives in danger to get our bread, because of the sword of the waste land.
Cross References
And there came an angel of the Lord, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto …
And he said, Be it far from me, O Lord, that I should do this: is not this the blood …
And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan sware unto them and to their men, saying, Fear not …
Even all the Jews returned out of all places whither they were driven, and came to the land of Judah, …
Now it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of …
Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the people that were in Mizpah, even the king’s daughters, and …
Because of the Chaldeans: for they were afraid of them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had slain Gedaliah the …
Saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear the …
Then it shall come to pass, that the sword, which ye feared, shall overtake you there in the land of …
Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they …