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Lamentations 5:6

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

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  1. Lamentations 5:4

    We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.

  2. Lamentations 5:5

    Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.

  3. Lamentations 5:7

    Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

  4. Lamentations 5:8

    Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.