Verse 6
Lamentations 5:6
English Revised Version
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We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
Original Language Text
hebrew
מִצְרַ֨יִם֙ נָתַ֣נּוּ יָ֔ד אַשּׁ֖וּר לִ/שְׂבֹּ֥עַֽ לָֽחֶם
English Translation
We have given our hand to Assyria to satisfy with bread.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 5 Context
1
Remember, O what is LORD, come upon us: behold, and see our reproach.
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2
Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, our houses unto aliens.
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3
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
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4
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
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5
Our pursuers are upon our necks: we are weary, and have no rest.
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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; and we have borne their iniquities.
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8
Servants rule over us: there is none to deliver us out of their hand.
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9
They ravished the women in Zion, the maidens in the cities of Judah.
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10
Princes were hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
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11
The young men bare the mill, and the children stumbled under the wood.
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12
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
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13
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
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14
The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us! for we have sinned.
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15
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim;
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16
For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate; the foxes walk upon it.
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17
Thou, O LORD, abidest for ever; thy throne is from generation to generation.
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18
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
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19
Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
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20
But thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art very wroth against us.
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