Lamentations 5:9
In oure lyues we brouyten breed to vs, fro the face of swerd in desert.
Bible (Wycliffe)
In The King James Version
We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
In Context
8Seruauntis weren lordis of vs, and noon was, that ayenbouyte fro the hond of hem.
10Oure skynne is brent as a furneis, of the face of tempestis of hungur.
Cross References
Judges 6:11Forsothe an aungel of the Lord cam, and sat undur an ook, that was in Effra, and perteynede to Joas, fadir of the meinee of Ezri. And whanne Gedeon, `his sone, threischide out, and purgide wheetis in a pressour,
Jeremiah 40:9And Godolie, sone of Aicham, sone of Saphan, swoor to hem, and to the felowis of hem, and seide, Nyle ye drede to serue Caldeis; but dwelle ye in the lond, and serue ye the kyng of Babiloyne, and it schal be wel to you.
Jeremiah 41:18for thei dredden thilke Caldeis, for Ismael, the sone of Nathanye, hadde slayn Godolie, the sone of Aicham, whom the kyng Nabugodonosor hadde maad souereyn in the lond of Juda.
Jeremiah 42:16to dwelle there, the swerd whiche ye dreden schal take you there in the lond of Egipt, and the hungur for which ye ben angwischid schal cleue to you in Egipt; and there ye schulen die.
Ezekiel 12:18and he seide, Thou, sone of man, ete thi breed in disturblyng, but also drynke thi water in haaste and mourening.