Here is a confession of guilt. Against all prophetic warnings (Isaiah 31:1; Hosea 5:13; Jeremiah 2:36), Judah had formed alliances with Assyria and Egypt, putting their hope in them instead of in the Lord. This idolatrous trust was still so strong among many of them that they would soon flee to Egypt for help (Jeremiah 43:4–7).
6 We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria, to get bread enough.