Lamentations 5:9

New Living Translation

We hunt for food at the risk of our lives, for violence rules the countryside.

Cross References

2 Samuel 23:17

“The Lord forbid that I should drink this!” he exclaimed. “This water is as precious as the blood of these men who risked their lives to bring it to me.” So David did not drink it. These are examples of the exploits of the Three.

Jeremiah 41:18

They were afraid of what the Babylonians would do when they heard that Ishmael had killed Gedaliah, the governor appointed by the Babylonian king.

Jeremiah 42:14

instead, we will go to Egypt where we will be free from war, the call to arms, and hunger,’

Jeremiah 42:16

the very war and famine you fear will catch up to you, and you will die there.

Judges 6:11

Then the angel of the Lord came and sat beneath the great tree at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash of the clan of Abiezer. Gideon son of Joash was threshing wheat at the bottom of a winepress to hide the grain from the Midianites.