Lamentations 5:9
“We gate our bread with the perill of our liues, because of the sword of the wildernesse.”
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Lamentations 5:9 Context
7Our fathers haue sinned and are not, and wee haue borne their iniquities. 8Seruants haue ruled ouer vs: there is none that doeth deliuer vs out of their hand. 9We gate our bread with the perill of our liues, because of the sword of the wildernesse. 10Our skinne was blacke like an ouen, because of the terrible famine. 11They rauished the women in Zion, and the maides in the cities of Iudah.
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Other Translations for Lamentations 5:9
We gat our bread with [the peril of] our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
- King James Version
We get our bread at the risk of our lives Because of the sword in the wilderness.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
- American Standard Version (1901)
We put our lives in danger to get our bread, because of the sword of the waste land.
- Basic English Bible
We have to get our bread at the risk of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
- Darby Bible
We procured our bread with the peril of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
- Webster's Bible
We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
- World English Bible
With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
- Youngs Literal Bible
We get our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
Wesley's Notes for Lamentations 5:9
5:9 The sword - The enemies lay encamped in all the plains, so that they could stir out no way but the sword of the Chaldeans was upon them.