Lamentations 5:9

We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

Lamentations 5:9 · King James Version

In other versions

We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
ASV
We put our lives in danger to get our bread, because of the sword of the waste land.
BBE
We have to get our bread at the risk of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
DBY
We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
WEB
With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
YLT
We got our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
ENG
We procured our bread with the peril of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
WBT
We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.
BSB

⁷Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

⁸Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.

⁹We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

¹⁰Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

¹¹They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.