Lamentations 5:9 meaning and explanation
We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.
Lamentations 5:9, Berean Standard Bible
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The speaker is the community of Jerusalem, praying as a devastated people after the Babylonian destruction of the city and temple in 586 BC. In verse 9 the people describe the daily cost of survival: to find food they must venture outside the ruined city into open country, where armed bands or raiders make the journey deadly.
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