Lamentations 5:9

9 We risk our lives to gather food in the bandit-infested 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 parents sinned and are no more, and now we're paying for the wrongs they did.

8 Slaves rule over us; there's no escape from their grip.

9 We risk our lives to gather food in the bandit-infested desert.

10 Our skin has turned black as an oven, dried out like old leather from the famine.

11 Our wives were raped in the streets in Zion, and our virgins in the cities of Judah.