Lamentations 5:9
We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
More from Lamentations 5
Verse 1
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
Verse 2
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Verse 3
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
Verse 4
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold
Verse 5
Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.