And he will say, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be to his brethren.
Lamentations 5:8 - Julia E. Smith Translation 1876 Servants ruled over us: none delivering from their hand. 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. |
And he will say, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be to his brethren.
And Sanballat the Horonite will hear, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, and they will mock to us and despise us, and say, What this word that ye do? are ye bearing rule against the king?
And the former prefects that were before me made heavy upon the people, and they will take from them in bread and wine, the last silver forty shekels; also their young men ruled over the people: and I did not thus from the face of the fear of God.
Upon thy knowledge that I will not do evil; and none delivering from thy hand.
His sons shall be far from salvation, and they shall be crushed in the gate, and none delivering.
Understand now this, ye forgetting God, lest I shall rend and none delivering.
Lest he shall rend my soul as the lion, breaking in pieces and none delivering.
For a servant when he shall reign; and the foolish one when he shall be filled with bread;
Also from the day I am he, and none delivering from my hand: I will do and who shall turn it back?
And now will I uncover her wickedness before the eyes of those loving her, and a man shall not deliver her from my hand.
For I will no more have pity upon the inhabitants of the land, says Jehovah: and behold, the men to be found each in the hand of his neighbor, and in the hand of his king: and they beat the land, and I will not deliver from their hand.
The stranger which is in the midst of thee shall go up above thee, going up, going up; and thou shalt go down beneath, beneath.