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


In Context

6 To Egypt we have given a hand, To Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.

7 Our fathers have sinned — they are not, We their iniquities have borne.

8 Servants have ruled over us, A deliverer there is none from their hand.

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

10 Our skin as an oven hath been burning, Because of the raging of the famine.

11 Wives in Zion they have humbled, Virgins — in 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 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.