Lamentations 5:9

In 11 translations

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.

LSV

With our lives we bring in our bread, || Because of the sword of the wilderness.

YLT

With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

DBY

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

DRC

We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert.

GNV

Wee gate our bread with the perill of our liues, because of the sword of the wildernesse.

JPS

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

LXXE

We shall bring in our bread with danger of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC

בְּנַפְשֵׁ֨נוּ֙ נָבִ֣יא לַחְמֵ֔נוּ מִפְּנֵ֖י חֶ֥רֶב הַמִּדְבָּֽר׃

LXX-Br

Ἐν ταῖς ψυχαῖς ἡμῶν εἰσοίσομεν ἄρτον ἡμῶν, ἀπὸ προσώπου ῥομφαίας τῆς ἐρήμου.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

• Ezekiel 4:16–17Then 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. So they will lack food and water;…
• Jeremiah 40:9–12Gedaliah 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. As…
• Ezekiel 12:18–19“Son of man, eat your bread with trembling, and drink your water with quivering and anxiety. Then tell the people of the land that this is what the Lord GOD says about those living in Jerusalem and in the land of…
• 2 Samuel 23:17saying, “Far be it from me, O LORD, to do this! Is this not the blood of the men who risked their lives?” So he refused to drink it. Such were the exploits of the three mighty men.
• Jeremiah 41:1–10In 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…
• Jeremiah 41:18to 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.
• Jeremiah 42:16then 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.
• Jeremiah 42:14and 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,’
• Judges 6:11Then 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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