God’s Word Translation
Lamentations 5:9
9To get our food, we have to risk our lives in the heat of the desert.
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 ancestors sinned. Now they are gone, ⌞but⌟ we have to take the punishment for their wickedness. 8Slaves rule us. There is no one to rescue us from them. To get our food, we have to risk our lives in the heat of the desert. 10Our skin is as hot as an oven from the burning heat of starvation. 11Women in Zion are raped, so are the girls in the cities of Judah.
Read all of Lamentations 5Lamentations 5:9 word by word
בְּנַפְשֵׁ֙נוּ֙ נָבִ֣יא לַחְמֵ֔נוּ מִפְּנֵ֖י חֶ֥רֶב הַמִּדְבָּֽר׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Lamentations 5:9
- Judges 6:11The Messenger of the Lord came and sat under the oak tree in Ophrah that belonged to Joash from Abiezer’s family. Joash’s son Gideon was beating out wheat in a winepress to hide it from the Midianites.
- 2 Samuel 23:17“It’s unthinkable that I would do this, Lord. This is the blood of men who risked their lives!” So he refused to drink it. These are the things which the three fighting men did.
- Jeremiah 40:9Gedaliah, son of Ahikam and grandson of Shaphan, swore an oath to them and their men. He said, “Don’t be afraid to serve the Babylonians. Live in this country, serve the king of Babylon, and you will prosper.
- Jeremiah 41:1In the seventh month Ishmael (son of Nethaniah and grandson of Elishama, a descendant of the royal family and of the king’s officers) went with ten men to Gedaliah, son of Ahikam, at Mizpah. As they ate together at Mizpah,
- Ezekiel 4:16He also said to me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the bread supply in Jerusalem. People will anxiously eat rationed bread and fearfully drink rationed water.
- Ezekiel 12:18“Son of man, shake as you eat your food. Tremble and be worried as you drink your water.
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
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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
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