Lamentations 5:9
We gat our bread with our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
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Context
7 Our fathers have sinned, not; and we have borne their iniquities.
8 Servants have ruled over us: none that does deliver out of their hand.
9 We gat our bread with our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
11 They ravished the women in Zion, the maids in the cities of Judah.