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Selected Verse: Lamentations 5:9 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| La 5:9 |
King James |
We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
We gat our bread with . . . peril--that is, those of us left in the city after its capture by the Chaldeans.
because of . . . sword of . . . wilderness--because of the liability to attack by the robber Arabs of the wilderness, through which the Jews had to pass to get "bread" from Egypt (compare Lam 5:6). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| We gat - Or, We get "our bread at the peril of our lives." This verse apparently refers to those who were left in the land, and who in gathering in such fruits as remained, were exposed to incursions of the Bedouin, here called "the sword of the desert." |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| The sword - The enemies lay encamped in all the plains, so that they could stir out no way but the sword of the Chaldeans was upon them. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| We gat our bread with the peril of our lives - They could not go into the wilderness to feed their cattle, or to get the necessaries of life, without being harassed and plundered by marauding parties, and by these were often exposed to the peril of their lives. This was predicted by Moses, Deu 28:31. |
6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
31 Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue them.