Lamentations 5:9

Lamentations 5:9

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7 ^aOur fathers sinned and are no more,
But we bear their iniquities.

8 Servants rule over us;
There is none to deliver us from their hand.

9 We get our bread at the risk of our lives,
Because of the sword in the wilderness.

10 Our skin is hot as an oven,
Because of the fever of famine.

11 They ^aravished the women in Zion,
The maidens in the cities of Judah.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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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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