American Standard Version
"We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness. "
— Lamentations 5:9, American Standard Version
“We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.”
“We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.”
“At the risk of our lives we get our food because robbers lurk in the wilderness.”
“We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert.”
“We put our lives in danger to get our bread, because of the sword of the waste land.”
“We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.”
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
Our fathers sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities.
Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.
Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.