Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
We have to get our bread at the risk of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
Holman Bible
because of the sword in the wilderness.
International Standard Version
We risk our lives to obtain our food, facing death in the desert.
A Conservative Version
We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
American Standard Version
We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
Amplified
We get our bread at the risk of our lives
Because of the sword [of the Arabs] in the wilderness [who may attack if we go out to harvest the crop].
Bible in Basic English
We put our lives in danger to get our bread, because of the sword of the waste land.
Julia Smith Translation
With our souls we shall bring our bread from the face of the sword of the desert
King James 2000
We got our bread at the peril of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.
Lexham Expanded Bible
{We risk our life for food} because of the sword of the desert.
Modern King James verseion
We bring in our bread with our souls, because of the sword of the wilderness.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
We must get our living with the peril of our lives because of the drought of the wilderness.
NET Bible
At the risk of our lives we get our food because robbers lurk in the countryside.
New Heart English Bible
We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.
The Emphasized Bible
At the risk of our life, do we bring in our bread, because of the sword of the desert.
Webster
We procured our bread with the peril of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
World English Bible
We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
Youngs Literal Translation
With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
Interlinear
Lechem
Nephesh
Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 5:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Request For Mercy
8 Bondmen rule over us: there is no deliverer out of their hand. 9 We have to get our bread at the risk of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness. 10 Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the burning heat of the famine.
Cross References
Jeremiah 40:9-12
And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan swore unto them and to their men, saying, Fear not to serve the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.
Judges 6:11
Now the angel of the LORD came and sat under the oak at Ophrah, which belonged to Jo'ash the Abiez'rite, as his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press, to hide it from the Mid'ianites.
2 Samuel 23:17
And he said, Be it far from me, Jehovah, that I should do this thing! is it not the blood of the men that went at the risk of their lives? Therefore he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men.
Jeremiah 41:1-10
And it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of the royal seed, and one of the king's chief men, and ten men with him, came to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam unto Mizpah, and there they ate bread together, in Mizpah.
Jeremiah 41:18
because of the Chaldeans; for they feared them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had smitten Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon had appointed over the land.
Jeremiah 42:14
saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger for bread; and there will we dwell;
Jeremiah 42:16
then it shall come to pass, that the sword which ye fear shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, whereof ye are afraid, shall follow hard after you there in Egypt; and there ye shall die.
Ezekiel 4:16-17
And he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I break the staff of bread in Jerusalem; and they shall eat bread by weight, and with anxiety; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:
Ezekiel 12:18-19
Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with anxiety;