Lamentations 5:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Servants and slaves rule over us; there is none to deliver us out of their hands. [Neh. 5:15.]

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

Slaves rule over us; there is no one to rescue us from their power.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Servants have become rulers over us. There was no one to redeem us from their hand.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of their hand.

Lamentations 5:8 Cross References

Genesis 9:25

he said, “Cursed be Canaan; lowest of slaves shall he be to his brothers.”

Nehemiah 2:19

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

Nehemiah 5:15

The former governors who were before me laid heavy burdens on the people and took food and wine from them, besides forty shekels of silver. Even their servants lorded it over the people. But I did not do so because of the fear of God.

Job 10:7

although you know that I am not guilty, and there is no one to deliver out of your hand?

Job 5:4

Their children are far from safety, they are crushed in the gate, and there is no one to deliver them.

Psalm 50:22

“Mark this, then, you who forget God, or I will tear you apart, and there will be no one to deliver.

Psalm 7:2

or like a lion they will tear me apart; they will drag me away, with no one to rescue.

Proverbs 30:22

a slave when he becomes king and a fool when glutted with food,

Isaiah 43:13

Indeed, since that day I am he; there is no one who can deliver from my hand; I work, and who can hinder it?

Hosea 2:10

Now I will uncover her shame in the sight of her lovers, and no one shall rescue her out of my hand.

Zechariah 11:6

For I will no longer have pity on the inhabitants of the earth, says the Lord. I will cause them, every one, to fall each into the hand of a neighbor and each into the hand of the king, and they shall devastate the earth, and I will deliver no one from their hand.”

Deuteronomy 28:43

Aliens residing among you shall ascend above you higher and higher, while you shall descend lower and lower.