Holy Scripture
Lamentations 5:6
A church father on this verse
“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…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
6Egypt gave the hand to us, Assyria to their own satisfaction.
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4We have drunk our water for money; Our wood is sold to us for a burden on our neck:
5We have been persecuted, We have labored, we have had no rest.
— Lamentations 5:6 —
7Our fathers sinned, and are not: We have borne their iniquities.
8Servants have ruled over us: There is none to ransom us out of their hand.