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We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.

Lamentations 5:9 · WEB

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ગુજરાતીયર્મિયાનો વિલાપ ૫:૯
અરણ્યમાં ભટકતા લોકોની તલવારને લીધે અમારો જીવ જોખમમાં નાખીને અમે અમારું અન્ન ભેગું કરીએ છીએ.
हिन्दीविलापगीत ५:९
जंगल में की तलवार के कारण हम अपने प्राण जोखिम में डालकर भोजनवस्तु ले आते हैं।

In context

7Our fathers sinned, and are no more. We have borne their iniquities.

8Servants rule over us. There is no one to deliver us out of their hand.

9We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.

10Our skin is black like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.

11They ravished the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah.

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