Lamentations 5:9

God's Word

To get our food, we have to risk our lives in the heat of the desert.

Cross References

2 Samuel 23:17

“It’s unthinkable that I would do this, Lord. This is the blood of men who risked their lives!” So he refused to drink it. These are the things which the three fighting men did.

Jeremiah 41:18

They were afraid of the Babylonians because Ishmael had killed Gedaliah whom the king of Babylon had appointed to govern the land.

Jeremiah 42:14

Then you say, ‘We’ll go to Egypt, where we won’t have to see war, hear the sound of a ram’s horn, or be hungry. We’ll stay there.’

Jeremiah 42:16

Then the wars you fear will catch up with you in Egypt. The famines you dread will follow you to Egypt, and you will die there.

Judges 6:11

The Messenger of the Lord came and sat under the oak tree in Ophrah that belonged to Joash from Abiezer’s family. Joash’s son Gideon was beating out wheat in a winepress to hide it from the Midianites.