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 wilderness. Amalekites, Midianites, and others. (Comp. Jeremiah 40:14.)
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Lamentations 5:9
9 We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.