Parallel Verses
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.
Darby Translation
We have to get our bread at the risk of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
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
Slaves rule over us; there is none to deliver us from their hand.
9
Cross References
Jeremiah 40:9-12
Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, swore to them and their men, saying, "Do not be afraid 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 terebinth at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, while his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress to hide it from the Midianites.
2 Samuel 23:17
and said, "Far be it from me, O LORD, that I should do this. Shall I drink the blood of the men who went at the risk of their lives?" Therefore he would not drink it. These things the three mighty men did.
Jeremiah 41:1-10
In the seventh month, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, son of Elishama, of the royal family, one of the chief officers of the king, came with ten men to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, at Mizpah. As they ate bread together there at Mizpah,
Jeremiah 41:18
because of the Chaldeans. For they were afraid of them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had struck down Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land.
Jeremiah 42:14
and saying, 'No, we will go to the land of Egypt, where we shall not see war or hear the sound of the trumpet or be hungry for bread, and we will dwell there,'
Jeremiah 42:16
then the sword that you fear shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine of which you are afraid shall follow close after you to Egypt, and there you shall die.
Ezekiel 4:16-17
Moreover, he said to me, "Son of man, behold, I will break the supply of bread in Jerusalem. They shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and they shall drink water by measure and in dismay.
Ezekiel 12:18-19
"Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink water with trembling and with anxiety.