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Lamentations 5:9

We got our bread at the peril of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.
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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
Sword. Any one might kill us.

Thomas Aquinas

AD 1274
Here is viewed the affliction of hunger. First is shown the people's want; "at the peril of our lives", That is, at a danger to our soul, to our very life. Also, while fleeing into the desert from the face of the sword of Babylon. Or, because, due to loading themselves with foods, they exposed themselves to dangers. As a result, their enemies pursuing them into the desert, would make them flee. As Isaiah 21:14 records: "to the thirsty bring water, meet the fugitive with bread, O inhabitants of the land of Tema."

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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