Lamentations 5:9 in the King James Version
We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
Context
8 Servants rule over us. There is no one to deliver us out of their hand.
9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.
10 Our skin is black like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.