Lamentations 5:6

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Hos 9:3 : 3 They shall not dwell in the LORD's land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.
  • Hos 12:1 : 1 Ephraim feeds on the wind, and pursues the east wind; he daily increases lies and desolation, and they make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.
  • Gen 24:2 : 2 And Abraham said to his oldest servant of his house, who ruled over all that he had, "Please, put your hand under my thigh,
  • 2 Kgs 10:15 : 15 And when he had departed from there, he met Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him: and he greeted him, and said to him, Is your heart right, as my heart is with your heart? And Jehonadab answered, It is. If it is, give me your hand. And he gave him his hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot.
  • Isa 30:1-6 : 1 Woe to the rebellious children, says the LORD, that seek counsel, but not from me; and that make a covering, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin: 2 Who walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt! 3 Therefore, the strength of Pharaoh shall be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion. 4 For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes. 5 They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach. 6 The burden of the beasts of the south: through a land of trouble and anguish, from which come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.
  • Isa 31:1-3 : 1 Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help; and rely on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they do not look to the Holy One of Israel, nor seek the LORD! 2 Yet He also is wise, and will bring disaster, and will not call back His words: but will rise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of those who practice iniquity. 3 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses are flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD stretches out His hand, both he who helps will fall, and he who is helped will fall down, and they all will fail together.
  • Isa 57:9 : 9 And you went to the king with ointment, and increased your perfumes, and sent your messengers far off, and debased yourself even unto hell.
  • Jer 2:18 : 18 And now what do you have to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? or what do you have to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the river?
  • Jer 2:36 : 36 Why do you go about so much to change your way? you also shall be ashamed of Egypt, as you were ashamed of Assyria.
  • Jer 44:12-14 : 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, and fall in the land of Egypt; they shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine: they shall die, from the least even to the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach. 13 For I will punish those who dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: 14 So that none of the remnant of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, that they should return into the land of Judah, to which they have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return but such as shall escape.
  • Jer 50:15 : 15 Shout against her all around: she has surrendered: her foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down: for it is the vengeance of the LORD: take vengeance upon her; as she has done, do unto her.
  • Ezek 17:18 : 18 Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, lo, he had given his hand and has done all these things, he shall not escape.
  • Hos 5:13 : 13 When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then Ephraim went to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet he could not heal you, nor cure you of your wound.
  • Hos 7:11 : 11 Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.

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    6 And the Egyptians mistreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:

    7 And when we cried to the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labor, and our oppression:

  • 6 We have sinned with our ancestors, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.

  • 15 how our fathers went down to Egypt, and we dwelt in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians afflicted us and our fathers.

  • Neh 5:2-5
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    4 There were also those who said, We have borrowed money for the king's tax, against our lands and vineyards.

    5 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and indeed, we bring into bondage our sons and daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are already in bondage; nor is it in our power to redeem them, for other men have our lands and vineyards.

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    36 Here we are, servants today! And the land that You gave to our forefathers to eat its fruit and its bounty, here we are, servants in it.

    37 And it yields much increase to the kings You have set over us because of our sins; also, they have dominion over our bodies and our cattle at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.

  • 14 Saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell:

  • 11 You have given us like sheep appointed for food, and have scattered us among the heathen.

  • 4 For thus says the Lord GOD, My people went down previously into Egypt to live there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.

  • 3 And the children of Israel said to them, If only we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat, and when we ate bread to the full; for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.

  • 2 Who walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!

  • 24 We have heard the report, our hands grow weak; anguish has taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in labor.

  • 25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly clings to the earth.

  • 7 Since the days of our fathers we have been in a great trespass to this day; and because of our iniquities, we, our kings, and our priests, have been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.

  • 6 But now our soul is dried away; there is nothing at all, besides this manna, before our eyes.

  • 6 And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod at its entrances; thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he comes into our land and when he treads within our borders.

  • 14 You shall eat, but not be satisfied; hunger shall be in your midst; you shall take hold, but shall not deliver; and what you deliver I will give up to the sword.

  • 9 Therefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she lusted.

  • 16 There is no straw given to your servants, and they say to us, Make bricks: and behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people.

  • 27 Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over you, and have diminished your ordinary food, and delivered you to the will of those that hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your lewd way.

  • 5 He shall not return to the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.

  • 23 In that day there shall be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrians shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptians into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.

  • 20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;

  • 12 This bread of ours we took hot for our provision out of our houses on the day we came forth to go to you; but now, see, it is dry and moldy:

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    17 But we will certainly do whatever thing proceeds out of our own mouth, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then we had plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil.

    18 But since we stopped burning incense to the queen of heaven, and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.

  • 17 All this has come upon us; yet we have not forgotten You, nor have we dealt falsely in Your covenant.

  • 42 We have transgressed and rebelled; You have not pardoned.

  • 3 Assyria will not save us; we will not ride on horses: neither will we say anymore to the work of our hands, You are our gods: for in you the orphan finds mercy.

  • 13 You who rejoice in a thing of nothing, who say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?

  • 11 Does not Hezekiah persuade you to give yourselves up to die by famine and by thirst, saying, The LORD our God will deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

  • 5 Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread; and those who were hungry have ceased to hunger: so that the barren has borne seven; and she who has many children has become feeble.

  • 5 We have sinned and committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from Your precepts and from Your judgments:

  • 16 But they and our forefathers acted proudly, hardened their necks, and did not heed Your commandments.