Lamentations 5:9

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
We secure our food at the risk of our livesbecause of the sword in the wilderness.

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

King James Version
We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

English Standard Version
We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.

New American Standard Bible
We get our bread at the risk of our lives Because of the sword in the wilderness.

New Century Version
We risk our lives to get our food; we face death in the desert.

Amplified Bible
We get our bread at the risk of our lives Because of the sword [of the Arabs] in the wilderness [who may attack if we go out to harvest the crop].

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

Geneva Bible (1587)
Wee gate our bread with the perill of our liues, because of the sword of the wildernesse.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
We get our bread at the risk of our lives Because of the sword in the wilderness.

Legacy Standard Bible
We get our bread at the risk of our livesBecause of the sword in the wilderness.

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

Contemporary English Version
We are in danger from brutal desert tribes; we must risk our lives just to bring in our crops.

Complete Jewish Bible
We get our food at the peril of our lives because of the sword in the desert.

Darby Translation
We have to get our bread at the risk of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.

Easy-to-Read Version
We risk our lives to get food. There are men in the desert with swords.

George Lamsa Translation
We get our bread with the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.

Good News Translation
Murderers roam through the countryside; we risk our lives when we look for food.

Lexham English Bible
We risk our life for food because of the sword of the desert.

Literal Translation
We bring in our bread with our souls, from the face of the sword of the wilderness.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
We must get or lyuynge with the parell of oure lyues, because of the drouth of the wildernesse.

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

Bible in Basic English
We put our lives in danger to get our bread, because of the sword of the waste land.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
We get our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

King James Version (1611)
We gate our bread with the perill of our liues, because of the sword of the wildernesse.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
We must get our liuing with the perill of our liues, because of the drouth of the wildernesse.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
We shall bring in our bread with danger of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.

English Revised Version
We get our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
In oure lyues we brouyten breed to vs, fro the face of swerd in desert.

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

Webster's Bible Translation
We procured our bread with [the peril of] our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.

New English Translation
At the risk of our lives we get our food because robbers lurk in the countryside.

New King James Version
We get our bread at the risk of our lives, Because of the sword in the wilderness.

New Living Translation
We hunt for food at the risk of our lives, for violence rules the countryside.

New Life Bible
We put our lives in danger to get our bread, because of the sword in the desert.

New Revised Standard
We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
At the risk of our life, do we bring in our bread, because of the sword of the desert.

Douay-Rheims Bible
We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert.

Revised Standard Version
We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.

Young's Literal Translation
With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

Contextual Overview

¹ "Remember, God , all we've been through. Study our plight, the black mark we've made in history. Our precious land has been given to outsiders, our homes to strangers. Orphans we are, not a father in sight, and our mothers no better than widows. We have to pay to drink our own water. Even our firewood comes at a price. We're nothing but slaves, bullied and bowed, worn out and without any rest. We sold ourselves to Assyria and Egypt just to get something to eat. Our parents sinned and are no more, and now we're paying for the wrongs they did. Slaves rule over us; there's no escape from their grip. We risk our lives to gather food in the bandit-infested desert. Our skin has turned black as an oven, dried out like old leather from the famine. Our wives were raped in the streets in Zion, and our virgins in the cities of Judah. They hanged our princes by their hands, dishonored our elders. Strapping young men were put to women's work, mere boys forced to do men's work. The city gate is empty of wise elders. Music from the young is heard no more. All the joy is gone from our hearts. Our dances have turned into dirges. The crown of glory has toppled from our head. Woe! Woe! Would that we'd never sinned! Because of all this we're heartsick; we can't see through the tears. On Mount Zion, wrecked and ruined, jackals pace and prowl. And yet, God , you're sovereign still, your throne intact and eternal. So why do you keep forgetting us? Why dump us and leave us like this? Bring us back to you, God —we're ready to come back. Give us a fresh start. As it is, you've cruelly disowned us. You've been so very angry with us."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Judges 6:11, 2 Samuel 23:17, Jeremiah 40:9-12, Jeremiah 41:1-10, Jeremiah 41:18, Jeremiah 42:14, Jeremiah 42:16, Ezekiel 4:16, Ezekiel 4:17, Ezekiel 12:18, Ezekiel 12:19

Reciprocal: Genesis 47:19 - buy us Judges 5:11 - the noise Job 15:23 - wandereth Psalms 59:15 - for meat

Gill's Notes on the Bible

We gat our bread [with the peril of] our lives,.... This seems to refer to the time of the siege when they privately went out of the city to get in some provision, but went in danger of their lives:

because of the sword of the wilderness: or, "of the plain" t; because of the, word of the Chaldean army, which lay in the plain about Jerusalem into whose hand there was danger of falling, and of being cut to pieces.

t מפני חרב המדבר "propter gladium [in] deserto, [sive] plano", Gataker.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

We gat - Or, We get “our bread at the peril of our lives.” This verse apparently refers to those who were left in the land, and who in gathering in such fruits as remained, were exposed to incursions of the Bedouin, here called “the sword of the desert.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 9. We gat our bread with the peril of our lives — They could not go into the wilderness to feed their cattle, or to get the necessaries of life, without being harassed and plundered by marauding parties, and by these were often exposed to the peril of their lives. This was predicted by Moses, Deuteronomy 28:31.