Lamentations 5:9

A Prayer for Restoration · Lamentations 5:1–22
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Translations

Modern
We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.
Traditional
We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
Literal
With our soul we bring in our bread before the face of the sword in the wilderness.
Latin
In animabus nostris afferebamus panem nobis, a facie gladii in deserto.

Original

Hebrew
English
We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.

Notes

This chapter is a sincere prayer asking for restoration (compare Daniel 9:4–19).

Glossary

Lamentations, Book of

Topics

Patriotism: General Scriptures Concerning