Lamentations 5:9 — Bible Verse (KJV)
“We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.”
Lamentations 5:9 — King James Version (KJV), 1611
Lamentations 5:9 in 6 Bible Translations
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Lamentations 5:9 WEB — World English Bible (2000)
“We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.”
Lamentations 5:9 — World English Bible
Lamentations 5:9 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)
“We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness. ”
Lamentations 5:9 — American Standard Version
Lamentations 5:9 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)
“With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.”
Lamentations 5:9 — Young's Literal Translation
Lamentations 5:9 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)
“We have to get our bread at the risk of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness. ”
Lamentations 5:9 — Darby Translation
Lamentations 5:9 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)
“Wee gate our bread with the perill of our liues, because of the sword of the wildernesse.”
Lamentations 5:9 — Geneva Bible
Lamentations 5:9 in Context — Lamentations 5
7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
9 We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
11 They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
What Does Lamentations 5:9 Mean?
Lamentations 5:9 is a verse from the Book of Lamentations, part of the Old Testament. It appears in Lamentations chapter 5. Use The Living Sword's word-by-word study mode to explore every word in the original Hebrew and Aramaic.
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