Lamentations 5:9
We get our bread only by risking our lives, 1 because of the sword in the wilderness. 1
Unlocked Literal 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
8Slaves rule over us, 1 and there is no one to deliver us from their hand. 1
10Our skin has grown as hot as an oven 1 because of the burning heat of hunger. 1
Cross References
Judges 6:11Now the angel of Yahweh came and sat under the oak in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash (the Abiezrite), while Gideon, Joash's son, was separating out the wheat by beating it on the floor, in the winepress—to hide it from the Midianites.
Jeremiah 40:9Gedaliah son of Ahikam son of Shaphan took an oath to them and to their men and said to them, “Do not be afraid to serve the Chaldean officials. Live in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it will go well with you.
Jeremiah 41:18because of the Chaldeans. They were afraid of them since Ishmael son of Nethaniah had killed Gedaliah son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon had put in charge of the land.
Jeremiah 42:16then the sword that you fear will overtake you there in the land of Egypt. The famine that you are worrying about will pursue you to Egypt, and you will die there.
Ezekiel 12:18“Son of man, eat your bread with trembling, and drink your water with shaking and worry.
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 →