Text -- Lamentations 5:6 (NET)

5:6 We have submitted to Egypt and Assyria in order to buy food to eat.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Lam 5:6

¹ tn Heb “we have given the hand”; cf. NRSV “We have made a pact.” This is a Semitic idiom meaning “to make a treaty with” someone, placing oneself in a subservient position as vassal. The prophets criticized these treaties.

² tn Heb “bread.” The term “bread” is a synecdoche of specific (= bread) for the general (= food).