“Here is viewed the affliction of hunger. First is shown the people's want; "at the peril of our lives", That is, at a danger to our soul, to our very life. Also, while fleeing into the desert from the face of the sword of Babylon. Or, because, due to loading themselves with foods, they exposed themselves to dangers. A…”
Thomas Aquinas, 13th c. — Commentary on Lamentations
Original
9We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
Modern
Preparing…
Teens
Preparing…
Kids
Preparing…
In context
7Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
8Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
— Lamentations 5:9 —
10Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
11They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.