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 of the siege.
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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.