Lamentations 5:6

The Passion Translation

We made a pact with Egypt and Assyria just to have enough food to eat.

Cross References

Jeremiah 2:36

Look how you cheapen yourself by constantly shifting your course. Egypt will put you to shame just as Assyria did.

Jeremiah 2:18

Why, then, would you now go down to Egypt to drink the waters of the Nile? Why would you go to Assyria to drink from the river Euphrates?

Genesis 24:2

One day, Abraham called for his trusted head servant, who was in charge of all that he had, and said “Please, put your hand here under my thigh,

Ezekiel 17:18

For he despised his oath by breaking the treaty to which he had pledged himself, and he will not go unpunished.

Jeremiah 50:15

Raise the war cry against her from all sides. She surrenders! The attackers have broken down her fortifications and walls. This is Yahweh’s vengeance! Take revenge on her. Do to them what they did to others.

Isaiah 57:9

You journeyed to the king with oil along with many perfumes. You sent your envoys to exotic lands, even down to the underworld.

Lamentations 4:17

We strained our eyes continually and looked, watching for help that never came. From our watchtowers we waited for a nation to help, for a nation that could not save us.