Lamentations 5:9
Meaning, cross-references, and a prayer for Lamentations 5:9 — by Collins Asein
Quick Summary
Lamentations 5:9 is a verse from the book of Lamentations in the Old Testament. The KJV reads: "We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness." Below you will find the full verse text, cross-references, meaning, and a prayer based on this scripture.
Lamentations 5:9 — KJV
“We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.”
— Lamentations 5:9 (KJV)
Lamentations 5:9 in Context — About the Book of Lamentations
Lamentations is five funeral poems over fallen Jerusalem — grief given holy structure. At its exact center burns the flame the darkness never reaches: because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed; His mercies are new every morning. It teaches us to grieve with hope.
Cross-References for Lamentations 5:9
“And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.”
Shares key themes with Lamentations 5:9: bread, wilderness
“And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves: because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians.”
Shares key themes with Lamentations 5:9: bread, because
“And they said unto them, The LORD look upon you, and judge; because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us. to be...: Heb. to stink”
Shares key themes with Lamentations 5:9: because, sword
“And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt?”
Shares key themes with Lamentations 5:9: because, wilderness
“And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.”
Shares key themes with Lamentations 5:9: gat, wilderness
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