9We got our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.


In Context

6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none that does deliver us out of their hand.

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

10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

11 They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.

Lamentations 5:9 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:9We gat our bread with [the peril of] our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

5:9We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the desert.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

5:9We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:9We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:9We have to get our bread at the risk of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:9We get our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:9We procured our bread with the peril of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:9We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:9With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.