Lamentations 5:6 meaning and explanation
We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.
Lamentations 5:6, Berean Standard Bible
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The speaker is the gathered community of Judah, praying in the ruins of Jerusalem after the Babylonians destroyed the city and temple in 586 BC. In verse 6 they confess that hunger drove them to seek help from Egypt and Assyria, the very powers they had once trusted instead of the LORD.
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