Lamentations 5:6-8

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁶We have given the hand to Egypt,
    and to Assyria, to get bread enough.
⁷Our fathers sinned, and are no more;
    and we bear their iniquities.
⁸Slaves rule over us;
    there is none to deliver us from their hand.

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