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Lamentations 5:9 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness. "
Lamentations 5:9
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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.
They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
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Lamentations 5:1
"Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach."
Lamentations 5:2
"Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens."
Lamentations 5:3
"We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows."
Lamentations 5:4
"We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold"
Lamentations 5:5
"Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest."
Lamentations 5:6
"We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread."
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