Lamentations 5:9

9 We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword 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 fathers have sinned, and are not: and we have borne their iniquities.

8 Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of their hand.

9 We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert.

10 Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.

11 They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda.