So he said, “Cursed is Canaan: the lowest slave will he be to his brothers.”
Lamentations 5:8 - Tree of Life Version Slaves rule over us. There is no one to deliver us 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. |
So he said, “Cursed is Canaan: the lowest slave will he be to his brothers.”
But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official and Geshem the Arab heard about it, they mocked and ridiculed us. They said, “What is this you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”
The earlier governors, those preceding me, placed heavy burdens on the people, and took bread and wine from them, in addition to forty shekels of silver. Their attendants also lorded over the people. But I did not do so, out of fear of God.
though You know that I am not guilty, yet there is no one to deliver from Your hand?
His sons are far from safety, and crushed at the gate without a deliverer!
Now consider this, you who forget God. Or else I will tear you in pieces with no one to rescue you.
Adonai my God, in You I have taken refuge. Save me from each of my persecutors, and deliver me.
under a slave when he becomes a king, a fool when he is stuffed with food,
From eternity, I am He. None can deliver from My hand. I act, and who can reverse it?”
But she did not realize that I Myself gave her the grain, the wine and the fresh oil. I lavished on her silver, also gold— which they made into Baal.
I will no longer have compassion on the inhabitants of the land”—it is a declaration of Adonai. “Behold, I will hand everyone over to his neighbor and his king. They will devastate the land, and I will not deliver them from their hand.”
“The outsider who is in your midst will rise up higher and higher above you, and you will go down lower and lower.