Lamentations 5:9

9 We got our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

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 dead; and we have borne their chastisements.

8 Slaves have ruled over us: there was no one to deliver us out of their hand.

9 We got our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

10 Our skin became black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

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