Lamentations 5:9
King James VersionSource notes
“We gat our bread with our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.”
Context
6We have given the hand the Egyptians, the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7Our fathers have sinned, not; and we have borne their iniquities.
8Servants have ruled over us: none that doth deliver out of their hand.
9We gat our bread with 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, the maids in the cities of Judah.
12Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.