Lamentations 5:9
With the peril of our lives we get our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
Noyes Bible
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 rule over us; There is none that delivereth out of their hand.
10Our skin is parched like an oven Because of the burnings of hunger.
Cross References
Jeremiah 40:9and Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, swore to them and to their men, saying, “Fear not to serve the Chaldaeans; dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.
Jeremiah 41:18from the Chaldaeans; for they were afraid of them, because Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, had slain Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land.
Jeremiah 42:16then it shall come to pass that the sword, which ye feared, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, of which ye were afraid, shall follow close after you into Egypt, and there shall ye die.
Ezekiel 12:18Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness;
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 →