Bible verse
We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.
Lamentations 5:6 · BSB
The verses around it, from Lamentations 5.
2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
3 We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.
4 We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.
5 We are closely pursued; we are weary and find no rest.
6 We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.
7 Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.
8 Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands.
9 We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.
10 Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.
KJV
We have given the hand [to] the Egyptians, [and to] the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
ASV
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
ERV
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
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