Lamentations 5:9 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

More versions

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: shall I drink the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives? therefore he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men.

Jeremiah 41:18

because of the Chaldeans: for they were afraid of them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor over 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 feel shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, whereof ye are afraid, shall follow hard after you there in Egypt; and there ye shall die.

Judges 6:11

And the angel of the LORD came and sat under the oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.