Lamentations 5:9
We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
KJV
In animabus nostris afferebamus panem nobis, a facie gladii in deserto.
Vulgate
ἐν ταῖς ψυχαῖς ἡμῶν εἰσοίσομεν ἄρτον ἡμῶν ἀπὸ προσώπου ῥομφαίας τῆς ἐρήμου.
LXX
We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
ASV
בְּ/נַפְשֵׁ֨/נוּ֙ נָבִ֣יא לַחְמֵ֔/נוּ מִ/פְּנֵ֖י חֶ֥רֶב הַ/מִּדְבָּֽר
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
בָּ֣א
b'
verb · 2573×
חֶ֖רֶב
chrb
noun · 409×
י
y
noun · 752×
לֶ֣חֶם
lchm
noun · 297×
מִּדְבָּ֑ר
mdbr
noun · 270×
פְנֵ֣י
pny
noun · 2111×
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Ezek 4:16 — Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishm
- Ezek 12:18 — Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness;
- Ezek 12:18 — Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness;
- Gen 47:19 — Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that
- Jer 40:9 — And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan sware unto them and to their men, saying, Fear not to serve the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with
- Judg 5:11 — They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD, even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villag
- Ps 59:15 — Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.