Lamentations 5:9

9 Murderers roam through the countryside; we risk our lives when we look for food.

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, but now they are gone, and we are suffering for their sins.

8 Our rulers are no better than slaves, and no one can save us from their power.

9 Murderers roam through the countryside; we risk our lives when we look for food.

10 Hunger has made us burn with fever until our skin is as hot as an oven.

11 Our wives have been raped on Mount Zion itself; in every Judean village our daughters have been forced to submit.