Lamentations 5:8 - The Scriptures 1998

⁸ Servants have ruled over us; There is no one to deliver from their hand.

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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.

Lamentations 5:8 Cross References

Genesis 9:25

and he said, “Cursed is Kenaʽ

Nehemiah 2:19

But when Sanballat the Ḥ

Nehemiah 5:15

But the former governors who were before me laid burdens on the people, and took from them bread and wine, besides forty sheqels of silver. Their servants also oppressed the people, but I did not do so, because of the fear of Elohim.

Job 10:7

For You know that I am not wrong, and there is no one to deliver from Your hand.

Job 5:4

His sons are far from safety, they are crushed in the gate, with no one to deliver.

Psalm 50:22

“Understand this please, you who forget Eloah, Lest I tear you in pieces, With no one to deliver:

Psalm 7:2

Lest they tear at my throat like a lion, Rending in pieces, with no one to deliver.

Proverbs 30:22

Under a servant when he reigns, And a fool when he is satisfied with food,

Isaiah 43:13

“Even from the day I am He, and no one delivers out of My hand. I work, and who turns it back?”

Hosea 2:10

“And now I shall uncover her shame before the eyes of her lovers, and no one shall deliver her from My hand.

Zechariah 11:6

“For I shall no longer spare the inhabitants of the land,” declares יהוה. “But see, I am delivering up mankind, each one into his neighbour’s hand and into the hand of his sovereign. And they shall crush the earth, but I do not deliver from their hand.”

Deuteronomy 28:43

“The sojourner who is among you rises higher and higher above you, but you come down lower and lower.