Lamentations 5:9

Lamentations 5:9 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
• New International Version (NIV)We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the desert.
• English Standard Version (ESV)We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.
• New King James Version (NKJV)We get our bread at the risk of our lives, Because of the sword in the wilderness.

Context of Lamentations 5:9

7Our fathers sinned, and are no more; It is we who have carried their sin. 8Servants rule over us; There is no one to rescue us out of their hand. We get our bread at the risk of our lives Because of the sword [of the Arabs] in the wilderness [who may attack if we go out to harvest the crop]. 10Our skin is as hot as [the heat of] an oven Because of the burning heat of [the fever of] famine. 11They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.

Lamentations 5:9 word by word

בְּנַפְשֵׁ֙נוּ֙ נָבִ֣יא לַחְמֵ֔נוּ מִפְּנֵ֖י חֶ֥רֶב הַמִּדְבָּֽר׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• We gatבּוֹאbô' · to come (in): bringH935
• our breadלֶ֫חֶםlechem · food: breadH3899
• our livesנֶ֫פֶשׁnephesh · soul: lifeH5315
• becauseפָּנֶהpânîym · face: becauseH6440
• of the swordחֶ֫רֶבchereb · swordH2719
• of the wildernessמִדְבָּרmidbâr · wildernessH4057

Cross-references for Lamentations 5:9

• Judges 6:11Now the Angel of the Lord came and sat under the terebinth tree at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, and his son Gideon was beating wheat in the wine press [instead of the threshing floor] to [hide it and] save it from the Midianites.
• 2 Samuel 23:17And he said, “Far be it from me, O Lord, that I should drink this. [Is it not the same as] the blood of the men who went at the risk of their lives?” So he would not drink it. These things the three mighty men did.
• Jeremiah 40:9Then Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, swore to them and their men, saying, “Do not be afraid to serve the Chaldeans; stay in this land and serve the king of Babylon, that it may go well with you.
• Jeremiah 41:1Now in the seventh month Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal family [of David] and one of the princes of the king, came [at the instigation of the Ammonites] with ten men to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam in Mizpah. As they were eating a meal together there in Mizpah,
• Ezekiel 4:16Moreover, He said to me, “Son of man, behold (listen carefully), I am going to break the staff of bread [that supports life] in Jerusalem; and they shall eat bread [rationed] by weight and [eat it] with anxiety and fear, and drink water by measure and [drink it] in horror [of the impending starvation],
• Ezekiel 12:18“Son of man, eat your bread with anxiety, and drink your water with trembling and with fear.

Commentaries on Lamentations 5:9

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 9We gat our bread with the peril of our lives - They could not go into the wilderness to feed their cattle, or to get the necessaries of life, without being harassed and plundered by marauding parties, and by these were often exposed to the peril of their lives. This was predicted by Moses, Deuteronomy 28:31.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 9We gat - Or, We get “our bread at the peril of our lives.” This verse apparently refers to those who were left in the land, and who in gathering in such fruits as remained, were exposed to incursions of the Bedouin, here called “the sword of the desert.”Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-22This chapter is a sincere prayer asking for restoration (compare Daniel 9:4–19).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 99. We gat our bread with ... peril--that is, those of us left in the city after its capture by the Chaldeans. because of ... sword of ... wilderness--because of the liability to attack by the robber Arabs of the wilderness, through which the Jews had to pass to get "bread" from Egypt (compare La 5:6).Read the comment

Topics related to Lamentations 5:9

• Patriotism

In the dictionaries

• Crown
• Persecution
• Acrostic
• Lamentations, Book of
• Poetry, Hebrew

Commentaries on Lamentations 5

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings