Lamentations 5:9 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁹ 7 Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore are our eyes become dim,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ We gat our bread with the peril of our lives Because of the sword of the wilderness.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ 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)

⁹ We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

Common English Bible

⁹ We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the desert heat.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ 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

⁹ 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

2 These things did Banaias the son of Joiada.

Jeremiah 41:18

And he called Johanan the son of Caree, and all the captains of the fighting men that were with him, and all the people from the least to the greatest.

Jeremiah 42:14

2 Now therefore know certainly that you shall die by the sword, and by famine, and by pestilence in the place to which you desire to go to dwell there.

Jeremiah 42:16

Azarias the son of Osaias, and Johanan the son of Caree, and all the proud men, made answer, saying to Jeremias: Thou tellest a lie: the Lord our God hath not sent thee, saying: Go not into Egypt, to dwell there.

Judges 6:11

6 And the Lord said to him: I will be with thee: and thou shalt cut off Madian as one man.