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 necessary business, to the incursions of the Arabian freebooters, who might not be improperly styled, "the sword of the wilderness." See Harmer's Observ. ch. 2: Obs. 5 and 6.