Lamentations 5:9
We shall bring in our bread with danger of our lives, 1 Because of the sword of the wilderness. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
In Context
8Servants have ruled over us: 1 There is none to ransom us out of their hand. 1
10Our skin is blackened like an oven; 1 They are convulsed, because of the storms of famine. 1
Cross References
Judges 6:11And an angel of the Lord came, and sat down under the fir tree, which was in Ophrah in the land of Joash father of Ezer; and Gideon his son was threshing wheat in a winepress in order to escape from the face of Midian.
Jeremiah 40:9And it shall be for joy and praise, and for glory to all the people of the earth, who shall hear all the good that I will do: and they shall fear and be provoked for all the good things and for all the peace which I will bring upon them.
Jeremiah 41:18And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, who have not kept my covenant, which they made before me, the calf which they prepared to sacrifice with it,
Jeremiah 42:16But the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have kept the command of their father; but this people has not hearkened to me.
Ezekiel 12:18Son of man, eat thy bread with sorrow, and drink thy water with torment and affliction.
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 →