Lamentations 5:6
Egypt gave the hand to us, Assur to their own satisfaction.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
In Context
5we have been persecuted, we have laboured, we have had no rest.
7Our fathers sinned, and are not: we have borne their iniquities.
Cross References
Genesis 24:2And Abraam said to his servant the elder of his house, who had rule over all his possessions, Put your hand under my thigh,
Isaiah 30:1Woe to the apostate children, says the Lord: you⌃ have framed counsel, not by me, and covenants not by my Spirit, to add sins to sins:
Isaiah 57:9and you have multiplied your whoredom with them, and you have increased the number of them that are far from you, and have sent ambassadors beyond your borders, and have been debased even to hell.
Jeremiah 2:36For you have been so exceedingly contemptuous as to repeat your ways; but you shall be ashamed of Egypt, as you were ashamed of Assur.
Ezekiel 17:18Whereas he has profaned the oath so as to break the covenant, when, behold, I engage his hand, and he has done all these things to him, he shall not escape.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 5:2-17
An Appeal to God; Complicated Sorrows. ( b. c. 588.) 1 Remember, O Lord , what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. 2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. 3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. 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. 7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not;… Read the whole commentary →