Lamentations 5:9
Strong's Lexicon
We get
נָבִ֣יא (nā·ḇî)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 935: 1) to go in, enter, come, go, come in 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to enter, come in 1a2) to come 1a2a) to come with 1a2b) to come upon, fall or light upon, attack (enemy) 1a2c) to come to pass 1a3) to attain to 1a4) to be enumerated 1a5) to go 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to lead in 1b2) to carry in 1b3) to bring in, cause to come in, gather, cause to come, bring near, bring against, bring upon 1b4) to bring to pass 1c) (Hophal) 1c1) to be brought, brought in 1c2) to be introduced, be put

our bread
לַחְמֵ֔נוּ (laḥ·mê·nū)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 3899: 1) bread, food, grain 1a) bread 1a1) bread 1a2) bread-corn 1b) food (in general)

at the risk of our lives
בְּנַפְשֵׁ֙נוּ֙ (bə·nap̄·šê·nū)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 5315: 1) soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion 1a) that which breathes, the breathing substance or being, soul, the inner being of man 1b) living being 1c) living being (with life in the blood) 1d) the man himself, self, person or individual 1e) seat of the appetites 1f) seat of emotions and passions 1g) activity of mind 1g1) dubious 1h) activity of the will 1h1) dubious 1i) activity of the character 1i1) dubious

because of
מִפְּנֵ֖י (mip·pə·nê)
Preposition-m | Noun - common plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 6440: 1) face 1a) face, faces 1b) presence, person 1c) face (of seraphim or cherubim) 1d) face (of animals) 1e) face, surface (of ground) 1f) as adv of loc/temp 1f1) before and behind, toward, in front of, forward, formerly, from beforetime, before 1g) with prep 1g1) in front of, before, to the front of, in the presence of, in the face of, at the face or front of, from the presence of, from before, from before the face of

the sword
חֶ֥רֶב (ḥe·reḇ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 2719: 1) sword, knife 1a) sword 1b) knife 1c) tools for cutting stone

in the wilderness.
הַמִּדְבָּֽר׃ (ham·miḏ·bār)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4057: 1) wilderness 1a) pasture 1b) uninhabited land, wilderness 1c) large tracts of wilderness (around cities) 1d) wilderness (fig.) 2) mouth 2a) mouth (as organ of speech)

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.

Young's Literal Translation
With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
We secure our food at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.

New American Standard Bible
We get our bread at the risk of our lives Because of the sword in the wilderness.

King James Bible
We gat our bread with [the peril of] our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the desert.

New Living Translation
We hunt for food at the risk of our lives, for violence rules the countryside.

English Standard Version
We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.

New American Standard Bible
We get our bread at the risk of our lives Because of the sword in the wilderness.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
We secure our food at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.

International Standard Version
We risk our lives to obtain our food, facing death in the desert.

NET Bible
At the risk of our lives we get our food because robbers lurk in the countryside.

American Standard Version
We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

English Revised Version
We get our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

Young's Literal Translation
With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
















Cross References
Jeremiah 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 you.

Ezekiel 12:18
Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness;

Lamentations 1:1
How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!

Lamentations 5:8
Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.

Lamentations 5:7
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

Lamentations 5:6
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

Lamentations 5:10
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

Lamentations 5:11
They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.

Lamentations 5:12
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
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