Lamentations 5:6

Lamentations chapter 5 · verse 6 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

We have given the hand to the Egyptians, And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

We have given the hand to the Egyptians, And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

Context

v.5Our pursuers are upon our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.

v.6This passage

v.7Our fathers sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Hosea 5:13

    When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to Assyria, and sent to king Jareb: but he is not able to heal you, neither will he cure you of your wound.

  • Ezekiel 17:18

    For he hath despised the oath by breaking the covenant; and behold, he had given his hand, and yet hath done all these things; he shall not escape.

  • Genesis 24:2

    And Abraham said unto his servant, the elder of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh:

  • Jeremiah 44:12

    And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed; in the land of Egypt shall they fall; they shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine; they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine; and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.

  • Hosea 12:1

    Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he continually multiplieth lies and desolation; and they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.

  • Jeremiah 2:36

    Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou shalt be ashamed of Egypt also, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.