Lamentations 5:9
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.”
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“We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.”
King James Version · Public Domain“We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Lamentations 5:9 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Judges 6:11Then the angel of the LORD came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to hide it from the Midianites.
- 2 Samuel 23:17saying, “Far be it from me, O LORD, to do this! Is this not the blood of the men who risked their lives?” So he refused to drink it. Such were the exploits of the three mighty men.
- Jeremiah 40:9Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, swore an oath to them and their men, assuring them, “Do not be afraid to serve the Chaldeans. Live in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it will go well with you.
- Jeremiah 41:1In the seventh month, Ishmael son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, who was a member of the royal family and one of the king’s chief officers, came with ten men to Gedaliah son of Ahikam at Mizpah, and they ate a meal together there.
- Jeremiah 41:18to escape the Chaldeans. For they were afraid of the Chaldeans because Ishmael son of Nethaniah had struck down Gedaliah son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon had appointed over the land.
- Jeremiah 42:14and if you say, ‘No, but we will go to the land of Egypt and live there, where we will not see war or hear the sound of the ram’s horn or hunger for bread,’
- Jeremiah 42:16then the sword you fear will overtake you there, and the famine you dread will follow on your heels into Egypt, and you will die there.
- Ezekiel 4:16Then He told me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of food in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight, and in despair they will drink water by measure.
- Ezekiel 12:18“Son of man, eat your bread with trembling, and drink your water with quivering and anxiety.
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