Lamentations 5:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

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, by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Cause), for the raids and fightings of the inhabitants of the wilderness.

Lamentations 5:9

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