We have given our [a]hands to the Egyptians, and to Assyria, to be satisfied with bread.

Our fathers have sinned, and are not, and we have borne [b]their iniquities.

Servants have ruled over us, none would deliver us out of their hands.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 5:6 We are joined in league and amity with them, or have submitted ourselves unto them.
  2. Lamentations 5:7 As our fathers have been punished for their sins: so we that are culpable of the same sins, are punished.

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