Lamentations 5:6-8

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

⁶We 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].

⁷Our fathers sinned and are no more, and ^[a]we have borne their iniquities.^(A)

⁸Servants and slaves rule over us; there is none to deliver us out of their hands.^(B)

Lamentations 5:7 Fathers and sons alike are responsible for the calamity that has befallen Jerusalem. The truth of the matter is: this generation too deserved their punishment. “Woe to us, for we have sinned! Because of this our hearts are faint and sick; because of these things our eyes are dim and see darkly” (Lam. 5:16, 17).