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


In Context

6 We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.

7 Our fathers sinned and are no more, and we bear their punishment.

8 Slaves rule over us, and there is none to free us from their hands.

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

10 Our skin is hot as an oven, feverish from hunger.

11 Women have been ravished in Zion, and virgins in the towns 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 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.

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.