Lamentations 5:9

The Passion Translation

We risk our lives to earn our bread because of armed gangs in the wilderness.

Cross References

Jeremiah 42:14

“Do not think for a moment: ‘We must go live in Egypt, where we will see no warfare nor be hungry nor hear the sound of the trumpet.’

Jeremiah 42:16

The sword you fear will overtake you, and the famine you dread will follow you to Egypt, and there you will die.

Judges 6:11

The Angel of Yahweh came to the village of Ophrah and sat down under the oak tree that belonged to Joash, a man of the clan of Abiezer. His son Gideon was secretly threshing some wheat in a winepress so that the Midianites would not see him.