Lamentations 5:9

9 We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the desert.

Lamentations 5:9 in Other Translations

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

9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.

9 We hunt for food at the risk of our lives, for violence rules the countryside.

9 We risk our lives to gather food in the bandit-infested desert.

9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

9 To get our food, we have to risk our lives in the heat of the desert.

9 We secure our food at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.

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 ancestors sinned and are no more, and we bear their punishment.

8 Slaves rule over us, and there is no one to free us from their hands.

9 We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the desert.

10 Our skin is hot as an oven, feverish from hunger.

11 Women have been violated in Zion, and virgins in the towns of Judah.