Lamentations 5:6
“We haue giuen the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.”
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Lamentations 5:6 Context
4We haue drunken our water for money, our wood is sold vnto vs. 5Our neckes are vnder persecution: we labour and haue no rest. 6We haue giuen the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. 7Our fathers haue sinned and are not, and wee haue borne their iniquities. 8Seruants haue ruled ouer vs: there is none that doeth deliuer vs out of their hand.
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We have given the hand [to] the Egyptians, [and to] the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
- King James Version
We have submitted to Egypt {and} Assyria to get enough bread.
- New American Standard Version (1995)