Lamentations 5:9 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

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

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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

And he said, Be it far from me, O Lord, that I should do this: is not this the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives? therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mighty men.

Jeremiah 41:18

because of the Chalde´ans: for they were afraid of them, because Ish´ma-el the son of Nethani´ah had slain Gedali´ah the son of Ahi´kam, whom the king of Babylon made governor in the land.

Jeremiah 42:14

saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell:

Jeremiah 42:16

then it shall come to pass, that the sword, which ye feared, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the famine, whereof ye were afraid, shall follow close after you there in Egypt; and there ye shall die.

Judges 6:11

And there came an angel of the Lord, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Jo´ash the Abi-ez´rite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Mid´i-anites.