Lamentations 5:6

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

"We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread." - Lamentations 5:6
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What does Lamentations 5:6 mean?

Lamentations 5:6 in the King James Version reads, "We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread." The book of Lamentations is a collection of five poetic laments for the destruction of Jerusalem. Traditionally, it has been attributed…

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Seeking Satisfaction: The Dangers of Compromise

**Lamentations 5:6** - "We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread." In the heart-wrenching poetry of Lamentations, we find the cries of a people who had once known the favor of God but now faced the bitter taste of loss and…

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A Prayer of Repentance and Dependence

O Lord God Almighty, Creator of Heaven and Earth, we come before You with hearts that long for Your presence, yearning for a deep, abiding connection with Your Spirit. We are reminded of the words in Lamentations 5:6, "We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the…

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Lamentations 5:6 - "We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread."
Lamentations 5:5 - "Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest."
Lamentations 5:11 - "They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah."
Lamentations 5:3 - "We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows."
Lamentations 5:2 - "Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens."
Lamentations 5:17 - "For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim."
Lamentations 5:7 - "Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities."
Lamentations 5:15 - "The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning."
Lamentations 5:18 - "Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it."
Lamentations 5:10 - "Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine."
Lamentations 5:13 - "They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood."
Lamentations 5:12 - "Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured."
Lamentations 3:6 - "He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old."
Lamentations 3:5 - "He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail."
Lamentations 5:14 - "The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick."
Lamentations 5:9 - "We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness."
Lamentations 5:19 – "You, Lord, reign forever; your throne endures from generation to generation."
Lamentations 5:19 - "Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation."
"Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest." - Lamentations 5:5
Lamentations 5:8 - "Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand."
Lamentations 5:1 - "Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach."
Lamentations 5:22 - "But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us."
Lamentations 4:5 - "They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills."
Lamentations 5:4 - "We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us."
Lamentations 5:20 - "Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?"
Lamentations 5:16 - "The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!"
"We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows." - Lamentations 5:3
"They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah." - Lamentations 5:11
Lamentations 5:21 - "Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old."