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Lamentations 5:6
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4 We pay for the water we drink,
And our wood comes at a price.
5 aThey pursue at our1 heels;
We labor and have no rest. 
6 aWe have given our hand bto the Egyptians
And the cAssyrians, to be satisfied with bread. 
7 aOur fathers sinned and are no more,
But we bear their iniquities. 
8 Servants rule over us;
There is none to deliver us from their hand.
9 We get our bread at the risk of our lives,
Because of the sword in the wilderness.
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Lamentations 5:6

given . . . hand to—in token of submission (see on Jeremiah 50:15).

to . . . Egyptians—at the death of Josiah (II Chronicles 36:3-4).

Assyrians—that is, the Chaldeans who occupied the empire which Assyria had held. So Jeremiah 2:18.

to be satisfied with bread— (Deuteronomy 28:48).




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Lamentations 5:6:

Jeremiah 2:18
Jeremiah 50:15
Lamentations 5:9
Ezekiel 17:18
Galatians 2:9

 

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