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The Book of Lamentations, Chapter 5, Verse 6

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5
Our necks [are] under persecution: we labour, [and] have no rest.
King James Version
We have given the hand [to] the Egyptians, [and to] the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
American Standard Version
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
New English Translation
We have submitted to Egypt and Assyria in order to buy food to eat.
World English Bible
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, To the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7
Our fathers have sinned, [and are] not; and we have borne their iniquities.
8
Servants have ruled over us: [there is] none that doth deliver [us] out of their hand.
9
We gat our bread with [the peril of] our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
10
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
11
They ravished the women in Zion, [and] the maids in the cities of Judah.
12
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
13
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
14
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
15
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
16
The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!