Lamentations 5:9
“We gate our bread with the perill of our liues, because of the sword of the wildernesse.”
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Lamentations 5:9 Context
7Our fathers haue sinned and are not, and wee haue borne their iniquities. 8Seruants haue ruled ouer vs: there is none that doeth deliuer vs out of their hand. 9We gate our bread with the perill of our liues, because of the sword of the wildernesse. 10Our skinne was blacke like an ouen, because of the terrible famine. 11They rauished the women in Zion, and the maides in the cities of Iudah.
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We gat our bread with [the peril of] our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
- King James Version
We get our bread at the risk of our lives Because of the sword in the wilderness.
- New American Standard Version (1995)