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Lamentations 5:9

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

8 Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands.

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

10 Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.

11 Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.
KJV
We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
WEB
We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.
ASV
We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
DARBY
We have to get our bread at the risk of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
BLB
With our soul we bring in our bread before the face of the sword in the wilderness.
ÅB
Med fare for vårt liv henter vi vårt brød, truet av ørkenens sverd.
OTB
Vi skaffer vårt brød med fare for våre liv på grunn av sverdet i ørkenen.
B1930
Med fare for vårt liv henter vi vårt brød, truet av ørkenens sverd.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Ezekiel 4:16–17

    Then He told me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of food in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight, and in despair they will drink water by measure.

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  • Ezekiel 12:18–19

    “Son of man, eat your bread with trembling, and drink your water with quivering and anxiety.

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  • Jeremiah 40:9–12

    Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, swore an oath to them and their men, assuring them, “Do not be afraid to serve the Chaldeans. Live in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it will go well with you.

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  • Jeremiah 41:18

    to escape the Chaldeans. For they were afraid of the Chaldeans because Ishmael son of Nethaniah had struck down Gedaliah son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon had appointed over the land.

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  • Jeremiah 41:1–10

    In the seventh month, Ishmael son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, who was a member of the royal family and one of the king’s chief officers, came with ten men to Gedaliah son of Ahikam at Mizpah, and they ate a meal together there.

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  • Jeremiah 42:14

    and if you say, ‘No, but we will go to the land of Egypt and live there, where we will not see war or hear the sound of the ram’s horn or hunger for bread,’

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  • Judges 6:11

    Then the angel of the LORD came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to hide it from the Midianites.

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  • Jeremiah 42:16

    then the sword you fear will overtake you there, and the famine you dread will follow on your heels into Egypt, and you will die there.

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