Lamentations 5:9

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

2 Samuel 23:17

He said, “Far be it from me, O  Lord, to drink this, the blood of the men who risked their lives.” So he was not willing to drink it. These things the three warriors did.

Jeremiah 41:18

because of the Chaldeans. 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 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 for bread, and there we will dwell,’

Jeremiah 42:16

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

Judges 6:11

Now the angel of the Lord came and sat under the oak tree in Ophrah belonging to Joash the Abiezrite. Gideon his son was threshing wheat in a winepress to hide it from the Midianites.