Lamentations 5:9

9 We get our bread at the ¹risk of our lives Because * of the sword in the wilderness.

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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.

FOOTNOTES:

F20 (rbdmh brx ynpm) "propter gladium [in] deserto, [sive] plano", Gataker.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Lamentations 5:9 In-Context

7 Our fathers sinned, and are no more; It is we who have borne their iniquities.

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

9 We get our bread at the risk of our lives Because of the sword in the wilderness.

10 Our skin has become as hot as an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.

11 They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.

Cross References 1

1. Jeremiah 40:9-12

Footnotes 2

[a]. Lit "with our soul"
[b]. Or "In the face of"