Lamentations 5:6 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁶ 4 The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ We have given the hand to the Egyptians, And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ We have given the hand [as a pledge of fidelity and submission] to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians [merely] to get food to satisfy [our hunger].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ We have given the hand to the Egyptians, And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

Common English Bible

⁶ We held out a hand to Egypt and to Assyria, to get sufficient food.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ We have given our hand to Egypt and to the Assyrians, so that we may be satisfied with bread.

Lamentations 5:6 Cross References

Genesis 24:2

And he said to the elder servant of his house, who was ruler over all he had: Put thy hand under my thigh,

2 Kings 10:15

0 And he said: Proclaim a festival for Baal. And he called,

Isaiah 57:9

7 For the iniquity of his covetousness I was angry, and I struck him: I hid my face from thee, and was angry: and he went away wandering in his own heart.

Jeremiah 2:18

6 As the thief is confounded when he is taken, so is the house of Israel confounded, they and their kings, their princes and their priests, and their prophets.

Jeremiah 2:36

And when she had done all these things, I said: Return to me, and she did not return. And her treacherous sister Juda saw,

Jeremiah 50:15

3 How is the hammer of the whole earth broken, and destroyed! how is Babylon turned into a desert among the nations!

Lamentations 4:17

We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows.

Ezekiel 17:18

That you use among you this parable as a proverb in the land of Israel, saying: The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.

Hosea 12:1

And I that am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt, will yet cause thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the feast.

Hosea 5:13

For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge of God more than holocausts.

Hosea 7:11

Israel hath cast off the thing that is good, the enemy shall pursue him.

Hosea 9:3

1 As for Ephraim, their glory hath flown away like a bird from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.