Lamentations 5:9
We get our lechem with the peril of our lives 1 because of the cherev of the midbar. 1
Orthodox Jewish 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
8Avadim have ruled over us; 1 there is none that doth deliver us out of their yad. 1
10Our skin was hot like an oven 1 because we burn with ra'av (hunger, famine). 1
Cross References
Judges 6:11And there came Malach Hashem, and sat under a terebinth tree which was in Ophrah, that belonged unto Yoash the Aviezri; and bno Gid'on threshed chittim (wheat) in the winepress, to hide it from Midyan.
Jeremiah 40:9And Gedalyahu ben Achikam ben Shaphan swore an oath unto them and to their anashim, saying, Fear not to serve the Kasdim (Chaldeans); dwell in the land, and serve Melech Bavel, and it shall be well with you.
Jeremiah 41:18Because of the Kasdim (Chaldeans); for they were afraid of them, because Yishmael ben Netanyah had slain Gedalyahu ben Achikam, whom Melech Bavel made governor in ha'aretz.
Jeremiah 42:16Then it shall come to pass, that the cherev, which ye feared, shall overtake you there in Eretz Mitzrayim, and the ra'av (famine), whereof ye were afraid, shall follow close after you there in Mitzrayim; and there ye shall die. 0
Ezekiel 12:18Ben adam, eat thy lechem with fearful shaking, and drink thy mayim with trembling and with anxiety;
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 →