Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Servants are ruling over us, and there is no one to make us free from their hands.
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.
American Standard 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.
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 were sinners and are dead; and the weight of their evil-doing is on us. 8 Servants are ruling over us, and there is no one to make us free from their hands. 9 We put our lives in danger to get our bread, because of the sword of the waste land.
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Cross References
Nehemiah 5:15
But earlier rulers who were before me made the people responsible for their upkeep, and took from them bread and wine at the rate of forty shekels of silver; and even their servants were lords over the people: but I did not do so, because of the fear of God.
Zechariah 11:6
For I will have no more pity for the people of the land, says the Lord; but I will give up everyone into his neighbour's hand and into the hand of his king: and they will make the land waste, and I will not keep them safe from their hands.
Psalm 7:2
So that he may not come rushing on my soul like a lion, wounding it, while there is no one to be my saviour.
Proverbs 30:22
A servant when he becomes a king; a man without sense when his wealth is increased;
Genesis 9:25
Cursed be Canaan; let him be a servant of servants to his brothers.
Deuteronomy 28:43
The man from a strange land who is living among you will be lifted up higher and higher over you, while you go down lower and lower.
Nehemiah 2:19
But Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, hearing of it, made sport of us, laughing at us and saying, What are you doing? will you go against the king?
Job 5:4
Now his children have no safe place, and they are crushed before the judges, for no one takes up their cause.
Job 10:7
Though you see that I am not an evil-doer; and there is no one who is able to take a man out of your hands?
Isaiah 43:13
From time long past I am God, and from this day I am he: there is no one who is able to take you out of my hand: when I undertake a thing, by whom will my purpose be changed?
Hosea 2:10
And now I will make her shame clear before the eyes of her lovers, and no one will take her out of my hand.