Lamentations 5:9
At the risk of our life, do we bring in our bread, because of the sword of the desert.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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, have ruled over us, There is none to set free from their hand.
10Our skin, as with a furnace, is scorched, because of the hot winds of famine.
Cross References
Judges 6:11Then came the messenger of Yahweh, and sat down under the oak which was in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash, the Abiezrite; and, Gideon his son, was beating out wheat in the winepress, to escape the notice of the Midianites;
Jeremiah 40:9Then Gedaliah son of Ahikam son of Shaphan sware unto them, and to their men saying, Do not be afraid of serving the Chaldeans,—dwell in the land and serve the king of Babylon that it may be well with you.
Jeremiah 41:18because of the Chaldeans, for they were afraid of them,—because Ishmael son of Nethaniah had smitten Gedaliah son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon had set in charge over the land.
Jeremiah 42:16then shall it come to pass that the sword which ye are fearing shall, there, overtake you, in the land of Egypt,—and the famine which ye are dreading, shall, there, lay fast hold of you, in Egypt, and, there, shall ye die.
Ezekiel 12:18Son of man, Thy bread with trembling, shalt thou eat,— And, thy water in agitation and in fear, shalt thou drink.
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 →