Lamentations 5:9 “We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the…”

Lamentations 5:9

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Wee gate our bread with the perill of our liues, because of the sword of the wildernesse.

Darby Translation

We have to get our bread at the risk of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.

Young's Literal Translation

With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

Bible in Basic English

We put our lives in danger to get our bread, because of the sword of the waste land.

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Cross references

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

Jeremiah 40:9–12 Judges 6:11 2 Samuel 23:17 Jeremiah 41:1–10 Jeremiah 41:18 Jeremiah 42:14

Jeremiah 40:9–12 · BSB

Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, swore an oath to them and their men, assuring them, “Do not be afraid to serve the Chaldeans. Live in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it will go well with you.

Judges 6:11 · BSB

Then the angel of the LORD came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to hide it from the Midianites.

2 Samuel 23:17 · BSB

saying, “Far be it from me, O LORD, to do this! Is this not the blood of the men who risked their lives?” So he refused to drink it. Such were the exploits of the three mighty men.

Jeremiah 41:1–10 · BSB

In the seventh month, Ishmael son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, who was a member of the royal family and one of the king’s chief officers, came with ten men to Gedaliah son of Ahikam at Mizpah, and they ate a meal t…

Jeremiah 41:18 · BSB

to escape the Chaldeans. For they were afraid of the Chaldeans because Ishmael son of Nethaniah had struck down Gedaliah son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon had appointed over the land.

Jeremiah 42:14 · BSB

and if you say, ‘No, but we will go to the land of Egypt and live there, where we will not see war or hear the sound of the ram’s horn or hunger for bread,’

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

8Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands.

10Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.

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