Lamentations 5:9 Meaning
We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
Context Explained
7Our 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.
11They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
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Source: Lamentations 5:9