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Lamentations 5:9

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We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

KJV

We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

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This verse in Lamentations 5

Commentary

3 notes on this verse
We gat our bread with the peril of our lives,.... This seems to refer to the time of the siege when they privately went out of the city to get in some provision, but went in danger of their lives: because of the sword of the wilderness: or, "of the plain" (t); because of the, word of the Chaldean army, which lay in the plain about Jerusalem into whose hand there was danger of falling, and of being cut to pieces. (t) מפני חרב המדבר "propter gladium in deserto, sive plano", Gataker.

This site's exposition

We gat our bread with the peril of our lives

on Lamentations 5:9-10

Verse 9 puts a price on daily bread, gotten at the peril of life because of the sword of the wilderness, foraging parties risking raiders to feed the city's survivors. Verse 10 reads the famine on the body itself, our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine, the same wasting chapter 4 already pictured in its Nazarites.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice
We 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.”

The words behind it

6 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • בְּנַפְשֵׁ֙נוּ֙with life our

    benafshenuH5315 →754 times

  • נָבִ֣יאwe bring

    navi'H935 →2568 times

  • לַחְמֵ֔נוּbread our

    lachmenuH3899 →298 times

  • מִפְּנֵ֖י<from> because of

    mipeneiH6440 →2123 times

  • חֶ֥רֶב[the] sword of

    cherevH2719 →413 times

  • הַמִּדְבָּֽר׃the wilderness

    hamidbarH4057 →270 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

13 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Judges 5:11the voices of the singers at the watering places. There they shall recount the righteous acts of the LORD, the righteous deeds of His villagers in Israel. Then the people of the LORD went down to the gates:5 worksEzekiel 4:16–17Then He told me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of food in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight, and in despair they will drink water by measure.4 worksJeremiah 40:9–12Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, swore an oath to them and their men, assuring them, “Do not be afraid to serve the Chaldeans. Live in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it will go well with you.3 worksEzekiel 12:18–19“Son of man, eat your bread with trembling, and drink your water with quivering and anxiety.3 worksGenesis 47:19Why should we perish before your eyes—we and our land as well? Purchase us and our land in exchange for food. Then we, along with our land, will be slaves to Pharaoh. Give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not become desolate.”3 worksPsalms 59:15They scavenge for food, and growl if they are not satisfied.3 works
The other 7 cross-references, with their words ▾
Jeremiah 41:1–10In the seventh month, Ishmael son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, who was a member of the royal family and one of the king’s chief officers, came with ten men to Gedaliah son of Ahikam at Mizpah, and they ate a meal together there.2 works2 Samuel 23:17saying, “Far be it from me, O LORD, to do this! Is this not the blood of the men who risked their lives?” So he refused to drink it. Such were the exploits of the three mighty men.2 worksJeremiah 41:18to escape the Chaldeans. For they were afraid of the Chaldeans because Ishmael son of Nethaniah had struck down Gedaliah son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon had appointed over the land.2 worksJeremiah 42:14and if you say, ‘No, but we will go to the land of Egypt and live there, where we will not see war or hear the sound of the ram’s horn or hunger for bread,’2 worksJeremiah 42:16then the sword you fear will overtake you there, and the famine you dread will follow on your heels into Egypt, and you will die there.2 worksJudges 6:11Then the 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 hide it from the Midianites.2 worksJob 15:23He wanders about as food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.2 works

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    2 Samuel 23:17

    saying, “Far be it from me, O LORD, to do this! Is this not the blood of the men who risked their lives?” So he refused to drink it. Such were the exploits of…

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 17:10

      If anyone from the house of Israel or a foreigner living among them eats any blood, I will set My face against that person and cut him off from among his people.

    • Psalms 72:14

      He will redeem them from oppression and violence, for their blood is precious in his sight.

    • Judges 5:18

      Zebulun was a people who risked their lives; Naphtali, too, on the heights of the battlefield.

    • 1 Corinthians 15:30

      And why do we endanger ourselves every hour?

    • Matthew 26:28

      This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

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About Lamentations

People Mourn over the Destruction of Jerusalem — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
People Mourn over the Destruction of Jerusalem — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament.

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