Lamentations 5:8 - Easy To Read Version Slaves have become our rulers.\par No person can save us from them.\par Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
But Sanballat from Horon, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard that we were building again. They made fun of us in a very ugly way. They said, “What are you doing? Are you turning against the king?”
But the governors that ruled before me made life hard for the people. Those governors forced every person to pay 1 pound {\cf2\super [17]} of silver. They also made those people give them food and wine. The leaders under those governors also ruled over the people \{and made life even harder\}. But I respected and feared God, so I didn’t do things like that.
You know I am innocent,\par but no one can save me\par from your power!\par
There was no one to help his children.\par No one defended them in court.\par
You people have forgotten God.\par So you had better understand\par before I tear you apart!\par If that happens,\par no person can save you!\par
If you don’t help me,\par I will be like an animal\par caught by a lion.\par I will be carried away,\par with no one to save me!\par
A servant that becomes a king, a foolish person that has everything he needs,
“I have always been God. When I do something, no person can change what I have done. And no person can save people from my power.”
Now I will strip her. She will be naked, so all her lovers can see her. No person will be able to save her from my power. {\cf2\super [16]}
And I don’t feel sorry for the people living in this country.” The Lord said these things, “Look, I will let everyone be abused by his neighbor and king. I will let them destroy their country—I will not stop them!”
The foreigners living among you will get more and more power. And you will lose the power you had.