Lamentations 5:9

9 We put our lives in danger just to get some bread to eat. Robbers in the desert might kill us with their swords.

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 people before us sinned. And they are now dead. We are being punished because of their sins.

8 Slaves rule over us. No one can set us free from their powerful hands.

9 We put our lives in danger just to get some bread to eat. Robbers in the desert might kill us with their swords.

10 Our skin is as hot as an oven. We are so hungry we're burning up with fever.

11 Our women have been raped in Zion. Our virgins have been raped in the towns of Judah.