Lamentations 5:9

9 We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the desert heat.

Lamentations 5:9 Meaning and Commentary

Lamentations 5:9

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" ^F20; 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.

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FOOTNOTES:

F20 (rbdmh brx ynpm) "propter gladium [in] deserto, [sive] plano", Gataker.

Lamentations 5:9 In-Context

7 Our fathers have sinned and are gone, but we are burdened with their iniquities.

8 Slaves rule over us; there is no one to rescue us from their power.

9 We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the desert heat.

10 Our skin is as hot as an oven because of the burning heat of famine.

11 Women have been raped in Zion, young women in Judah's cities.

Footnotes

• [a]. Or sword; Heb uncertain