Our pursuers are on our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.
"Because of the sword of the wilderness"  (Lamentations 5:9).  Cook accurately understood the `sword of the wilderness' here to be that of Bedouin marauders.  "Those who had been left in the land, in their attempt to gather such fruits as might have remained, were exposed to incursions by the Bedouin."[6]  Ash noted that, "The captivity was terrible, but the fate of those left in the land was no less so."[7]