Ekhah 5:9

9 We get our lechem with the peril of our lives because of the cherev of the midbar.

Ekhah 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.

Ekhah 5:9 In-Context

7 Avoteinu have sinned, and are no more; and we have borne their iniquities.

8 Avadim have ruled over us; there is none that doth deliver us out of their yad.

9 We get our lechem with the peril of our lives because of the cherev of the midbar.

10 Our skin was hot like an oven because we burn with ra’av (hunger, famine).

11 They ravished the nashim in Tziyon, and the betulot in the towns of Yehudah.