“Now, the people's slavery is personal and voluntary, because impelled by no means, people sell themselves to others in slavery. Or, at least for a time, as Verse 6 states: "We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria, to get bread enough." That is, subjugating themselves to them. As I Samuel 2:5 claims: "Those who…”
Thomas Aquinas, 13th c. — Commentary on Lamentations
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6We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
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4We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
5Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
— Lamentations 5:6 —
7Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
8Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.