Lamentations 5:9
We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.
BSB
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.
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.
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.”
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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2 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…
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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.
He will redeem them from oppression and violence, for their blood is precious in his sight.
Zebulun was a people who risked their lives; Naphtali, too, on the heights of the battlefield.
And why do we endanger ourselves every hour?
This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.