Lamentations 5:9 KJV
We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
Lamentations 5:7–11 KJV Chapter 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.