Lamentations 5:6

We have submitted ¹  to Egypt and Assyria in order to buy food to eat. ² 

biblegateway Lam 5:6

We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.

biblegateway Lam 5:6

We have submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.

biblegateway Lam 5:6

We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough food to survive.

biblegateway Lam 5:6

We sold ourselves to Assyria and Egypt just to get something to eat.

SABDAweb Lam 5:6

We have given our hands to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians so that we might have enough bread.

bibleoremus Lam 5:6

We have made a pact with Egypt and Assyria, to get enough bread.

biblegateway Lam 5:6

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

biblegateway Lam 5:6

We have submitted ¹  to Egypt and Assyria in order to buy food to eat. ² 

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).