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.
• 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.
• New Living Translation (NLT)We hunt for food at the risk of our lives, for violence rules the countryside.

Context of Lamentations 5:9

7Our ancestors sinned and are no more, and we bear their punishment. 8Slaves rule over us, and there is no one to free us from their hands. We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the desert. 10Our skin is hot as an oven, feverish from hunger. 11Women have been violated in Zion, and virgins in the towns 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 6:11The angel of the Lord came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to keep it from the Midianites.
• 2 Samuel 23:17“Far be it from me, Lord, to do this!” he said. “Is it not the blood of men who went at the risk of their lives?” And David would not drink it. Such were the exploits of the three mighty warriors.
• Jeremiah 40:9Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, took an oath to reassure them and their men. “Do not be afraid to serve the Babylonians,” he said. “Settle down in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it will go well with you.
• Jeremiah 41:1In the seventh month Ishmael son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, who was of royal blood and had been one of the king’s officers, came with ten men to Gedaliah son of Ahikam at Mizpah. While they were eating together there,
• Ezekiel 4:16He then said to me: “Son of man, I am about to cut off the food supply in Jerusalem. The people will eat rationed food in anxiety and drink rationed water in despair,
• Ezekiel 12:18“Son of man, tremble as you eat your food, and shudder in fear 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

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