Lamentations 5:8 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

Servants rule over us: there is none to deliver us out of 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

And he said, Cursed be Canaan; A servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

Nehemiah 2:19

But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?

Nehemiah 5:15

But the former governors that were before me were chargeable unto the people, and took of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.

Job 10:7

Although thou knowest that I am not wicked; And there is none that can deliver out of thine hand?

Job 5:4

His children are far from safety, And they are crushed in the gate, Neither is there any to deliver them.

Psalm 50:22

Now consider this, ye that forget God, Lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver:

Psalm 7:2

Lest he tear my soul like a lion, Rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

Proverbs 30:22

For a servant when he is king; And a fool when he is filled with meat;

Isaiah 43:13

Yea, since the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?

Hosea 2:10

And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand.

Zechariah 11:6

For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD: but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbour's hand, and into the hand of his king: and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.

Deuteronomy 28:43

The stranger that is in the midst of thee shall mount up above thee higher and higher; and thou shalt come down lower and lower.