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Lamentations 5:9
We put our lives in danger to get our bread, because of the sword of the waste land.
Lamentations 5:9 · Bible in Basic English
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Lamentations 5:9 in other translations
We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.
We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.
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In context
6 We have given our hands to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians so that we might have enough bread.
7 Our fathers were sinners and are dead; and the weight of their evil-doing is on us.
8 Servants are ruling over us, and there is no one to make us free from their hands.
9 We put our lives in danger to get our bread, because of the sword of the waste land.
10 Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from need of food.
11 They took by force the women in Zion, the virgins in the towns of Judah.
12 Their hands put princes to death by hanging: the faces of old men were not honoured.
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