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Lamentations 5:6
We have given the hand [to] the Egyptians, [and to] the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
Lamentations 5:6 · Webster Bible
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Lamentations 5:6 in other translations
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.
We have given our hands to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
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In context
3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows.
4 We have drank our water for money; our wood is sold to us.
5 Our necks [are] under persecution: we labor, [and] have no rest.
6 We have given the hand [to] the Egyptians, [and to] the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7 Our fathers have sinned, [and are] not; and we have borne their iniquities.
8 Servants have ruled over us: [there is] none that doth deliver [us] out of their hand.
9 We procured our bread with [the peril of] our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
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