Lamentations 5:9

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

Related Commentaries of 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...
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 wilderne...
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 a...
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"...
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...
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...
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...
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., tho...
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 tha...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

We gat] RV 'We got,' lit. 'we bring in.' Because of the sword of the wilderness ] alluding to the raids of the Bedouins, who may have fallen upon...
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...
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...
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...
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 th...
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...
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...
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 s...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

An Appeal to God; Complicated Sorrows. B. C. 588....
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...
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 cou...
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 s...
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...
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 can...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Lamentations 5:1-25 INSULT UPON INSULT HAS BEEN HEAPED UPON JERUSALEM . Lamentations 5:2 Our inheritance....
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Description of the Present Misery
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness, for the country, sparsely populated as it was after the deportat...
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.

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

Related Commentaries of Lamentations 5:9

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Lamentations 5:9