Lamentations 5:9 - The Scriptures 2009

With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

We gat our bread with the peril of our lives Because of the sword of the wilderness.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

We get our bread at the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness [the wild Arabs, who may attack if we venture into the fields to reap our harvests].

American Standard Version (1901)

We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

Common English Bible

We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the desert heat.

Catholic Public Domain Version

We obtained our bread at the risk of our lives, before the face of the sword, in the wilderness.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert.

Lamentations 5:9 Cross References

2 Samuel 23:17

And he said, “Far be it from me, O יהוה, to do this – the blood of the men who went at the risk of their lives!” So he would not drink it. This is what the three mighty men did.

Jeremiah 41:18

because of the Kasdim. For they were afraid of them, because Yishma‛ĕl son of Nethanyah had struck Geḏalyahu son of Aḥiqam, whom the sovereign of Baḇel had made governor in the land.

Jeremiah 42:14

saying, ‘No, but we are going to the land of Mitsrayim so that we see no fighting, nor hear a voice of a shophar, nor hunger for bread, and there we shall stay,’

Jeremiah 42:16

then it shall be that the sword which you feared overtakes you there in the land of Mitsrayim, and the scarcity of food of which you were afraid clings to you there in Mitsrayim, and you die there.

Judges 6:11

And the Messenger of יהוה came and sat under the terebinth tree which was in Ophrah, which belonged to Yo’ash the Aḇi‛ezerite, while his son Giḏ‛on threshed wheat in the winepress, to hide it from the eyes of the Miḏyanites.