9 We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
9 We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the desert.
9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.
9 We risk our lives to gather food in the bandit-infested desert.
9 We get our bread at the risk of our lives, Because of the sword in the wilderness.
9 We hunt for food at the risk of our lives, for violence rules the countryside.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Lamentations 5:9
Commentary on Lamentations 5:1-16
(Read Lamentations 5:1-16)
Is any afflicted? Let him pray; and let him in prayer pour out his complaint to God. The people of God do so here; they complain not of evils feared, but of evils felt. If penitent and patient under what we suffer for the sins of our fathers, we may expect that He who punishes, will return in mercy to us. They acknowledge, Woe unto us that we have sinned! All our woes are owing to our own sin and folly. Though our sins and God's just displeasure cause our sufferings, we may hope in his pardoning mercy, his sanctifying grace, and his kind providence. But the sins of a man's whole life will be punished with vengeance at last, unless he obtains an interest in Him who bare our sins in his own body on the tree.