Lamentations 5:9 in the World English Bible
We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.
Context
8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
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.