Lamentations 5:8 “Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands.”

Lamentations 5:8

Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.

World English Bible

Servants rule over us. There is no one to deliver us out of their hand.

American Standard Version

Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.

Geneva Bible 1599

Seruants haue ruled ouer vs, none would deliuer vs out of their hands.

Darby Translation

Bondmen rule over us: there is no deliverer out of their hand.

Young's Literal Translation

Servants have ruled over us, A deliverer there is none from their hand.

Bible in Basic English

Servants are ruling over us, and there is no one to make us free from their hands.

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Cross references

“Servants”

Nehemiah 5:15 Proverbs 30:22 Genesis 9:25 Deuteronomy 28:43 Nehemiah 2:19

Nehemiah 5:15 · BSB

The governors before me had heavily burdened the people, taking from them bread and wine plus forty shekels of silver. Their servants also oppressed the people. But I did not do this, because of my fear of God.

Proverbs 30:22 · BSB

a servant who becomes king, a fool who is filled with food,

Genesis 9:25 · BSB

he said, “Cursed be Canaan! A servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.”

Deuteronomy 28:43 · BSB

The foreigner living among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink down lower and lower.

Nehemiah 2:19 · BSB

But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard about this, they mocked us and ridiculed us, saying, “What is this you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”

“there”

Zechariah 11:6 Psalm 7:2 Job 5:4 Job 10:7 Psalm 50:22 Isaiah 43:13

Zechariah 11:6 · BSB

For I will no longer have compassion on the people of the land, declares the LORD, but behold, I will cause each man to fall into the hands of his neighbor and his king, who will devastate the land, and I will not delive…

Psalm 7:2 · BSB

or they will shred my soul like a lion and tear me to pieces with no one to rescue me.

Job 5:4 · BSB

His sons are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender.

Job 10:7 · BSB

though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?

Psalm 50:22 · BSB

Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:

Isaiah 43:13 · BSB

Even from eternity I am He, and none can deliver out of My hand. When I act, who can reverse it?”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

7Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.

9We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.

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