Lamentations 5:9 · KJV
“We gat our bread with {the peril of} our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.”
— Lamentations 5:9
Servants have ruled over us: {there is} none that doth deliver {us} out of their hand.
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. {terrible: or, terrors, or, storms}
Lamentations 5 — Context
Our fathers have sinned, {and are} not; and we have borne their iniquities.
8Servants have ruled over us: {there is} none that doth deliver {us} out of their hand.
9We gat our bread with {the peril of} our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
10Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. {terrible: or, terrors, or, storms}
11They ravished the women in Zion, {and} the maids in the cities of Judah.
Cross References
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:
Ezekiel 12:18-19
Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness;
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.
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. {shall follow...: Heb. shall cleave after you}
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.
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:
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. {Gideon: Gr. Gedeon} {to hide...: Heb. to cause it to flee}
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.