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Lamentations 5:9 KJV
Lamentations · chapter 5 · verse 9
We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.Lamentations 5:9 · King James Version
Lamentations 5:9 in context
7Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
8Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
9We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
10Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
11They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- breadlechemfood , especially bread, or grainH3899 →
- livesnepheshproperly, a breathing creatureH5315 →
- swordcherebdroughtH2719 →
- gatbôwʼto go or comeH935 →
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Is any afflicted? let him pray; and let him in prayer pour out his complaint to God, and make known before him his trouble. The people of God do so here; being overwhelmed with grief, they give vent to their sorrows at the footstool of the throne of grace, and so give themselves ease.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-16