Lamentations 5:9

King James Version (KJV)

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

In context

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

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

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

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

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

KJV King James Version: We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
WEB World English Bible: We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.
BSB Berean Standard Bible: We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.
ASV American Standard Version: We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
YLT Young's Literal Translation: With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
DBY Darby Translation: We have to get our bread at the risk of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
WBS Webster Bible: We procured our bread with the peril of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.