Lamentations 5:9

A Request For Mercy

⁸ Servants ruled over us: none delivering from their hand. ⁹ With our souls we shall bring our bread from the face of the sword of the desert ¹⁰ Our skin was scorched as a furnace from the face of the violent heat of famine.

In the Wilderness

In The Desert

Jeremiah 40:9-12

And Gedaliah son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, will swear to them and to their men, saying, Ye shall not fear serving the Chaldeans: dwell in the land and serve the king of Babel, and it shall be well to you.

Judges 6:11

And a messenger of Jehovah will come and sit under an oak which is in Ophrah, which is to Joash, father of Ezri: and Gideon his son threshed wheat in the wine press to place in safety from the face of Midian.

2 Samuel 23:17

And he will say, Far be it to me, O Jehovah, my doing this the blood. of the men going with their souls: and he would not drink them. These did the three mighty.

Jeremiah 41:1-10

And it will be in the seventh month, came Ishmael son of Nethaniah son of Elishama, from the seed of the kingdom, and the chiefs of the king, and ten men with him, to Gedaliah son of Ahikam, to Mizpeh, and there will they eat bread together in Mizpeh.

Jeremiah 41:18

From the face of the Chaldean: for they were afraid from their face, because Ishmael son of Nethaniah, struck Gedaliah son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babel appointed over the land.

Jeremiah 42:14

Saying, No; for we will go to the land of Egppt where we shall not see war, and we shall not hear the voice of the trumpet, and for bread we shall not hunger: and there will we dwell.

Jeremiah 42:16

And it was the sword which ye were afraid of it, there it shall overtake you in the land of Egypt, and the famine which ye feared from it, shall cleave after you there in Egypt, and there shall ye die.

Ezekiel 4:16-17

And he will say to me, Son of man, behold me breaking the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they ate bread by weight and with fear; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment

Ezekiel 12:18-19

Son of man, thou shalt eat thy bread with trembling, and thou shalt drink thy water with disquiet and with dread;