Lamentations 5:9

9 We get our food at the peril of our lives because of the sword in the desert.

Lamentations 5:9 Meaning and Commentary

Lamentations 5:9

We gat our bread [with the peril of] our lives
This seems to refer to the time of the siege when they privately went out of the city to get in some provision, but went in danger of their lives: because of the sword of the wilderness:
or, "of the plain" ^F20; because of the, word of the Chaldean army, which lay in the plain about Jerusalem into whose hand there was danger of falling, and of being cut to pieces.

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FOOTNOTES:

F20 (rbdmh brx ynpm) "propter gladium [in] deserto, [sive] plano", Gataker.

Lamentations 5:9 In-Context

7 Our ancestors sinned and no longer exist; we bear the weight of their guilt.

8 We are ruled by slaves, and there is no one to save us from their power.

9 We get our food at the peril of our lives because of the sword in the desert.

10 Our skins are as black as a furnace because of the searing blasts of famine.

11 They have raped the women of Tziyon, virgins in the cities of Y'hudah.