Key Verse Spotlight
Lamentations 5:9 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“We gat our bread with {the peril of} our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.”
Lamentations 5:9
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
Our fathers have sinned, {and are} not; and we have borne their iniquities.
Servants have ruled over us: {there is} none that doth deliver {us} out of their hand.
We gat our bread with {the peril of} our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. {terrible: or, terrors, or, storms}
They ravished the women in Zion, {and} the maids in the cities of Judah.
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