Lamentations 5:9–10
Lamentations 5:9–10 — The New International Version (NIV)
9 We get our bread at the risk of our lives
because of the sword in the desert.
10 Our skin is hot as an oven,
feverish from hunger.
Lamentations 5:9–10 — English Standard Version (ESV)
9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives,
because of the sword in the wilderness.
10 Our skin is hot as an oven
with the burning heat of famine.
Lamentations 5:9–10 — King James Version (KJV 1900)
9 We gat our bread with the peril of our lives
Because of the sword of the wilderness.
10 Our skin was black like an oven
Because of the terrible famine.
Lamentations 5:9–10 — New Living Translation (NLT)
9 We hunt for food at the risk of our lives,
for violence rules the countryside.
10 The famine has blackened our skin
as though baked in an oven.
Lamentations 5:9–10 — The New King James Version (NKJV)
9 We get our bread at the risk of our lives,
Because of the sword in the wilderness.
10 Our skin is hot as an oven,
Because of the fever of famine.
Lamentations 5:9–10 — New Century Version (NCV)
9 We risk our lives to get our food;
we face death in the desert.
10 Our skin is hot like an oven;
we burn with starvation.
Lamentations 5:9–10 — American Standard Version (ASV)
9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives,
Because of the sword of the wilderness.
10 Our skin is black like an oven,
Because of the burning heat of famine.
Lamentations 5:9–10 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)
9 We have to get our bread at the risk of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness. 10 Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the burning heat of the famine.
Lamentations 5:9–10 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)
9 To get our food, we have to risk our lives
in the heatof the desert.
10 Our skin is as hot as an oven from the burning heat of starvation.
Lamentations 5:9–10 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)
9 We secure our food at the risk of our lives
because of the sword in the wilderness.
10 Our skin is as hot as an oven
from the ravages of hunger.
Lamentations 5:9–10 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives,
because of the sword in the wilderness.
10 Our skin is black as an oven
from the scorching heat of famine.
Lamentations 5:9–10 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)
9 We risk our life for food
because of the sword of the desert.
10 Our skin is hot like an oven
because of the scorching famine.
Lamentations 5:9–10 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)
9 We put our lives in danger just to get some bread to eat.
Robbers in the desert might kill us with their swords.
10 Our skin is as hot as an oven.
We are so hungry we’re burning up with fever.