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


In Context

6 We have given our hand to Egypt, and to the Assyrians, that we might 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 was none to redeem us out of their hand.

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

10 Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.

11 They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda.

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 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.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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