Lamentations 5:9 (DRB)

Passage

We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert.

Nearby Context

Lamentations 5:7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not: and we have borne their iniquities.

Lamentations 5:8 Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of their hand.

Lamentations 5:9 We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert.

Lamentations 5:10 Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.

Lamentations 5:11 They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "fetched", "bread", "peril", "lives", "sword", and "desert". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "fetched" and "bread", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 8's "Servants have ruled over us there was..." into verse 10's "Our skin was burnt as an oven...", so "fetched" and "bread" belong inside that flow. In Lamentations context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "fetched" and "bread" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.