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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on Lamentations 5:9

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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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We gat our bread with . . . peril--that is, those of us left in the city after its capture by the Chaldeans. because of . . . sword of . . . wilderness--because of the liability to attack by the robber Arabs of the wilderness, through which the Jews had to pass to get "bread" from Egypt (compare Lam 5:6).
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