“We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.”
Lamentations 5:6 (KJV) |
Lamentations 5:6
From Lamentations 5, in the Book of Lamentations (Old Testament).
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4
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
5
Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
6
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
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Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
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Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.