Lamentations 5:9

9 {We risk our life for food} because of the sword of 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 fathers have sinned, they are no more; we bear their iniquity.

8 Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hand.

9 {We risk our life for food} because of the sword of the desert.

10 Our skin is hot like an oven because of the scorching famine.

11 They raped women in Zion, young women in the cities of Judah.

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "We take our food at our life"