Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
New American Standard Bible
There is
King James Version
Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
Holman Bible
no one rescues us from their hands.
International Standard Version
Slaves rule over us, and no one delivers us from their control.
A Conservative Version
Servants rule over us. There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
Amplified
Servants rule over us;
There is no one to rescue us out of their hand.
Bible in Basic English
Servants are ruling over us, and there is no one to make us free from their hands.
Darby Translation
Bondmen rule over us: there is no deliverer out of their hand.
Julia Smith Translation
Servants ruled over us: none delivering from their hand.
King James 2000
Servants have ruled over us: there is none that does deliver us out of their hand.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hand.
Modern King James verseion
Servants rule over us; there is no rescuer out of their hand.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Servants have the rule of us, and no man delivereth us out of their hands.
NET Bible
Slaves rule over us; there is no one to rescue us from their power.
New Heart English Bible
Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
The Emphasized Bible
Slaves, have ruled over us, There is none to set free from their hand.
Webster
Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
World English Bible
Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
Youngs Literal Translation
Servants have ruled over us, A deliverer there is none from their hand.
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 5:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Request For Mercy
7 Our fathers sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities. 8 Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand. 9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
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Cross References
Nehemiah 5:15
But the former governors that were before me were chargeable unto the people, and took of them bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.
Zechariah 11:6
For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith Jehovah; but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbor's hand, and into the hand of his king; and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.
Psalm 7:2
Lest they tear my soul like a lion, Rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
Proverbs 30:22
For a servant when he is king; And a fool when he is filled with food;
Genesis 9:25
And he said, Cursed be Canaan; A servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
Deuteronomy 28:43
The sojourner that is in the midst of thee shall mount up above thee higher and higher; and thou shalt come down lower and lower.
Nehemiah 2:19
But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?
Job 5:4
His children are far from safety, And they are crushed in the gate, Neither is there any to deliver them:
Job 10:7
Although thou knowest that I am not wicked, And there is none that can deliver out of thy hand?
Psalm 50:22
Now consider this, ye that forget God, Lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver:
Isaiah 43:13
Yea, since the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who can hinder it?
Hosea 2:10
And now will I uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of my hand.