Commentaries:Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Lamentations 5:9
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 Lamentations 5:6).
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