Lamentations 5:9 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

Lamentations 5:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

We gat - Or, We get “our bread at the peril of our lives.” This verse apparently refers to those who were left in the land, and who in gathering in such fruits as remained, were exposed to incurs...
Lamentations 5:9 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

We procured our bread with [the peril of] our lives because of the sword (e) of the wilderness. (e) Because of the enemy that came from the wilderness and would not suffer us to go and seek our nece...
Lamentations 5:9 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 5. A Prayer. This chapter differs much from the previous four. It is not a Lament, but one long pleading; and it is not the chant of an individual, but of a company, a plural, we. It m...
Lamentations 5:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

We gat our bread . We brought home our bread. lives . souls. Hebrew. nephesh. App-13. Some codices, with one early printed edition, read "souls". sword of the wilderness. "The sword" is put,...
Lamentations 5:9 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

The word חרב, chereb, means drought as well as sword. As the Prophet is speaking of famine and the desert,, I have no doubt but that dryness or drought is sword the word means here; and I...
Lamentations 5:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness. We gat our bread with the peril of our lives - They could not go into the wilderness to feed their cattle, or to...
Lamentations 5:9 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

With the peril of our lives, &c.— I can no otherwise understand this, than that on account of their weak and defenceless state the people were continually exposed, while they followed their nec...
Lamentations 5:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness. We gat our bread with the peril of our lives - i:e., those of us left in the city after its capture by the...
Lamentations 5:9 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Zion's earnest Petition for Deliverance This final poem is not so much an elegy as a prayer or meditation. The tone is more calm and spiritual than the others, with no trace of vindictiveness. The...
Lamentations 5:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The sword of the wilderness. — Another element of suffering is hinted at. Those who were left in the land were attacked, as they gathered in their scanty harvest, by the nomad tribes of the wildern...
Lamentations 5:9 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

AN APPEAL FOR GOD'S COMPASSION Lamentations 5:1-10 UNLIKE its predecessors, the fifth and last elegy is not an acrostic. There is little to be gained by a discussion of the various conjectures...
Lamentations 5:9 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The final poem is an appeal out of sorrow to Jehovah. Speaking on behalf of the whole nation, the prophet called on Jehovah to remember. He described the actual desolation, telling of the affliction...
Lamentations 5:9 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities. Servants have ruled over us: there...
Lamentations 5:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

We gat our bread [with the peril of] our lives ,.... This seems to refer to the time of the siege when they privately went out of the city to get in some provision, but went in danger of their lives...
Lamentations 5:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

We gat our bread with [the peril of] our lives because of the sword of the wilderness. Ver. 9. We gat our bread with the peril of our lives. ] So did our good ancestors the bread of life, while th...
Lamentations 5:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Our fathers have sinned, and are not Death hath secured our fathers from these evils, though they had sinned; but the punishment they escaped, we suffer in the most grievous degree: see note on Je...
Lamentations 5:9 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

An Appeal to God; Complicated Sorrows. B. C. 588. 1 Remember, O L ORD , what is come upo...
Lamentations 5:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The enemies lay encamped in all the plains, so as they could stir out no way but the sword of the Chaldeans was upon them, and what victuals they got they adventured their lives for, during the time...
Lamentations 5:9 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness. When they left the safety of their cities and went into the countryside, which was now bare and neglected, in ord...
Lamentations 5:9 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

EXEGETICAL NOTES. — Lamentations 5:6 . Judæa was on the verge of famine through the foragings of the invaders, and, under the ominous shadow of starvation, To Egypt we have given the hand, i.e...
Lamentations 5:9 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

REFLECTIONS . Jeremiah in this last elegy continues the subject in more minute details; and having no hope for the present, he consoles himself with hope in the latter day. Psalms 85 ; Hosea 3 . T...
Lamentations 5:9 - The Biblical Illustrator

Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us. An appeal for God’s compassion The prayer opens with a striking phrase--“Remember, O Lord,” etc. It cannot be supposed that the elegist conceived of his...
Lamentations 5:9 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Lamentations 5:1-25 INSULT UPON INSULT HAS BEEN HEAPED UPON JERUSALEM . Lamentations 5:2 Our inheritance. The land had been "given" to Abraham ( Genesis 13...
Lamentations 5:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Description of the Present Misery
Lamentations 5:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Samuel 23:17 ; Ezekiel 12:18 ; Ezekiel 12:19 ; Ezekiel 4:16 ; Ezekiel 4:17 ; Jeremiah 40:9-12 ; Jeremiah 41:1-10 ; Jeremiah 41:18 ; Jeremiah 42:14 ; Jeremiah 42:16 ; Judges 6:11
Lamentations 5:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The sword — The enemies lay encamped in all the plains, so that they could stir out no way but the sword of the Chaldeans was upon them.

Lamentations 5:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Lamentations 5:9 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Lamentations 5:9 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 5:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Lamentations 5:9 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 5:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Lamentations 5:9 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Lamentations 5:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Lamentations 5:9 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 5:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Lamentations 5:9 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Lamentations 5:9 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Lamentations 5:9 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Lamentations 5:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Lamentations 5:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Lamentations 5:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Lamentations 5:9 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Lamentations 5:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Lamentations 5:9 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 5:9 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Lamentations 5:9 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Lamentations 5:9 - The Biblical Illustrator

Lamentations 5:9 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Lamentations 5:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Lamentations 5:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Lamentations 5:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes