Lamentations 5:9

9 We risk our lives to get our food; we face death 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 against you, but they are gone; now we suffer because of their sins.

8 Slaves have become our rulers, and no one can save us from them.

9 We risk our lives to get our food; we face death in the desert.

10 Our skin is hot like an oven; we burn with starvation.

11 The enemy abused the women of Jerusalem and the girls in the cities of Judah.