Lamentations 5:9
Wee gate our bread with the perill of our liues, because of the sword of the wildernesse.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
In Context
8Seruants haue ruled ouer vs, none would deliuer vs out of their hands.
10Our skinne was blacke like as an ouen because of the terrible famine.
Cross References
Judges 6:11And the Angell of the Lord came, and sate vnder the oke which was in Ophrah, that perteined vnto Ioash the father of the Ezrites, and his sonne Gideon threshed wheate by the winepresse, to hide it from the Midianites.
Jeremiah 40:9And Gedaliah the sonne of Ahikam, the sonne of Shaphan sware vnto them, and to their men, saying, Feare not to serue the Caldeans: dwell in the lande, and serue the King of Babel, and it shall be well with you.
Jeremiah 41:18Because of the Caldeans: for they feared them, because Ishmael ye sonne of Nethaniah had slaine Gedaliah the sonne of Ahikam, whom the King of Babel made gouernour in the land.
Jeremiah 42:16Then the sworde that ye feared, shall take you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, for the which ye care, shall there hang vpon you in Egypt, and there shall ye die.
Ezekiel 12:18Sonne of man, eate thy bread with trembling and drinke thy water with trouble, and with carefulnesse,
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 →