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Lamentations 5:6
“We have given the hand to the Egyptians, To the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.”
Verse in context — Lamentations 5
4
We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold to us.
5
Our pursuers are on our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.
6
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, 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 none to deliver us out of their hand.
About Lamentations
Poems of grief over Jerusalem’s destruction.
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