Lamentations 5:8 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁸ Slaves rule over us; there is none to deliver us from their hand.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ Servants have ruled over us: There is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ Servants and slaves rule over us; there is none to deliver us out of their hands. [Neh. 5:15.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.

Common English Bible

⁸ Slaves rule over us; there is no one to rescue us from their power.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ Servants have become rulers over us. There was no one to redeem us from their hand.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ 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; a slave of slaves shall he be to his brothers.”

Nehemiah 2:19

But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arab heard of it, they derided us and despised us and said, “What is this thing that you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”

Nehemiah 5:15

The former governors who were before me laid heavy burdens upon the people, and took from them food and wine, 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 thou knowest that I am not guilty, and there is none to deliver out of thy hand?

Job 5:4

His sons 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, lest I rend, and there be none to deliver!

Psalm 7:2

lest like a lion they rend me, dragging me away, with none to rescue.

Proverbs 30:22

a slave when he becomes king, and a fool when he is filled with food;

Isaiah 43:13

“I am God, and also henceforth I am He; there is none who can deliver from my hand; I work and who can hinder it?”

Hosea 2:10

Now I will uncover her lewdness 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 this land, says the Lord. Lo, I will cause men to fall each into the hand of his shepherd, and each into the hand of his king; and they shall crush the earth, and I will deliver none from their hand.”

Deuteronomy 28:43

The sojourner who is among you shall mount above you higher and higher; and you shall come down lower and lower.