Internet Verse Search Commentaries Word Analysis ITL - draft

Lamentations 5:6

Context
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We have submitted 1  to Egypt and Assyria in order to buy food to eat. 2 

XREF

Ge 24:2; 2Ki 10:15; Isa 30:1-6; Isa 31:1-3; Isa 57:9; Jer 2:18,36; Jer 44:12-14; Jer 50:15; Eze 17:18; Ho 5:13; Ho 7:11; Ho 9:3; Ho 12:1

NET © Notes

tn Heb “we have given the hand”; cf. NRSV “We have made a pact.” This is a Semitic idiom meaning “to make a treaty with” someone, placing oneself in a subservient position as vassal. The prophets criticized these treaties.

tn Heb “bread.” The term “bread” is a synecdoche of specific (= bread) for the general (= food).



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