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Lamentations 5:9

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We get our bread at the peril of our lives,
because of the sword of the wilderness.

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Lamentations 5:9 in other translations

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

Lamentations 5:9 · American Standard Version

Lamentations 5:9 in context

  1. 7Our fathers sinned, and are no more.
    We have borne their iniquities.
  2. 8Servants rule over us.
    There is no one to deliver us out of their hand.
  3. 9We get our bread at the peril of our lives,
    because of the sword of the wilderness.
  4. 10Our skin is black like an oven,
    because of the burning heat of famine.
  5. 11They ravished the women in Zion,
    the virgins in the cities of Judah.