We have given our hands to the Egyptians,
and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Lamentations 5:6 in context
Lamentations 5:3–9
3
We are orphans and fatherless.
Our mothers are as widows.
4
We must pay for water to drink.
Our wood is sold to us.
5
Our pursuers are on our necks.
We are weary, and have no rest.
6
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We have given our hands to the Egyptians,
and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7
Our fathers sinned, and are no more.
We have borne their iniquities.
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.
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