Lamentations 5:9
We must get our liuing with the perill of our liues, because of the drouth of the wildernesse.
Bible (Bishops')
In The King James Version
We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
In Context
8Seruauntes haue the rule of vs, and no man deliuereth vs out of their handes.
10Our skinne is as it had ben made blacke in an ouen, for very sore hunger.
Cross References
Judges 6:11And the angel of the Lorde came and sate vnder an Oke which was in Ephrah, that parteyned vnto Ioas the father of the Esrites: And his sonne Gedeon threshed wheat by the wyne presse, to hyde it from the Madianites.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 5:2-17
An Appeal to God; Complicated Sorrows. ( b. c. 588.) 1 Remember, O Lord , what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. 2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. 3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. 4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. 5 Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest. 6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. 7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not;… Read the whole commentary →