lamentations 5:9 we gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness

Lamentations 5:9

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— We get our bread at the risk of our lives Because of the sword in the wilderness.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— We gat our bread with [the peril of] our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— We get our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— We procured our bread with [the peril of] our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— We have to get our bread at the risk of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— At the risk of our life, do we bring in our bread, because of the sword of the desert.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Wee gate our bread with the perill of our liues, because of the sword of the wildernesse.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— We gate our bread with [the perill] of our liues, because of the sword of the wildernesse.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— We get our bread with the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— We shall bring in our bread with [danger of] our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— We gat our bread with [the peril of] our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

We gat 935

{0935} Prime
בּוֹא
bow'
{bo}

A primitive root; to go or come (in a wide variety of applications).

z8686

<8686> Grammar

Stem - Hiphil (See H8818)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 4046

our bread 3899

{3899} Prime
לֶחֶם
lechem
{lekh'-em}

From H3898; food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it).

with [the peril of] our lives 5315

{5315} Prime
נֶפֶשׁ
nephesh
{neh'-fesh}

From H5314; properly a breathing creature, that is, animal or (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental).

because y6440

[6440] Standard
פָּנִים
paniym
{paw-neem'}

Plural (but always used as a singular) of an unused noun (פָּנֶה paneh, {paw-neh'}; from H6437); the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.).

of x4480

(4480) Complement
מִן
min
{min}

For H4482; properly a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses.

x6440

(6440) Complement
פָּנִים
paniym
{paw-neem'}

the sword 2719

{2719} Prime
חֶרֶב
chereb
{kheh'-reb}

From H2717; drought; also a cutting instrument (from its destructive effect), as a knife, sword, or other sharp implement.

of the wilderness. 4057

{4057} Prime
מִדְבָּר
midbar
{mid-bawr'}

From H1696 in the sense of driving; a pasture (that is, open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication a desert; also speech (including its organs).

Lamentations 5:9

_ _ We gat our bread with ... peril — that is, those of us left in the city after its capture by the Chaldeans.

_ _ because of ... sword of ... wilderness — because of the liability to attack by the robber Arabs of the wilderness, through which the Jews had to pass to get “bread” from Egypt (compare Lamentations 5:6).

See commentary on Lamentations 5:1-16.

Lamentations 5:9

The sword — The enemies lay encamped in all the plains, so that they could stir out no way but the sword of the Chaldeans was upon them.

Lamentations 5:9

We procured our bread with [the peril of] our lives because of the sword ^(e) of the wilderness.

^(e) Because of the enemy that came from the wilderness and would not suffer us to go and seek our necessary food.

Judges 6:11 And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which [was] in Ophrah, that [pertained] unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide [it] from the Midianites.

2 Samuel 23:17 And he said, Be it far from me, O LORD, that I should do this: [is not this] the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives? therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mighty men.

Jeremiah 40:9-12 And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan sware unto them and to their men, saying, Fear not to serve the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you. ... Even all the Jews returned out of all places whither they were driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, unto Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruits very much.

Jeremiah 41:1-10 Now it came to pass in the seventh month, [that] Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, and the princes of the king, even ten men with him, came unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they did eat bread together in Mizpah. ... Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the people that [were] in Mizpah, [even] the king's daughters, and all the people that remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive, and departed to go over to the Ammonites.

Jeremiah 41:18 Because of the Chaldeans: for they were afraid of them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor in the land.

Jeremiah 42:14 Saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell:

Jeremiah 42:16 Then it shall come to pass, [that] the sword, which ye feared, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, whereof ye were afraid, shall follow close after you there in Egypt; and there ye shall die.

Ezekiel 4:16-17 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment: ... That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.

Ezekiel 12:18-19 Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness; ... And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, [and] of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.

Jg 6:11. 2S 23:17. Jr 40:9; 41:1, 18; 42:14, 16. Ezk 4:16; 12:18.