King James Version
Lamentations 5:9 in the King James Version says “We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.” — study this verse from Lamentations chapter 5 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.”
Lamentations 5:9 · KJV
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. terrible: or, terrors, or, storms
They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“with the peril of our lives”
H5315properly, a breathing creature, i.e., animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or ment
“because”
H6440the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi
“of the sword”
H2719drought; also a cutting instrument (from its destructive effect), as a knife, sword, or other sharp implement
“of the wilderness”
H4057a pasture (i.e., open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert
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