Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from 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.
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.
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.
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 have sinned, they are no more; we bear their iniquity. 8 Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hand. 9 {We risk our life for food} because of the sword of the desert.
Names
Cross References
Nehemiah 5:15
The former governors who were before me laid burdens on the people, and they took food and wine from them, besides forty shekels. Also, their servants controlled the people, but I did not do so because of the fear of God.
Zechariah 11:6
For I will no longer have compassion on the inhabitants of the land," {declares} Yahweh. "Look, I [am] going to cause humankind to fall, each into the hand of his neighbor, and into the hand of his king; and they will devastate the land, and I will not deliver [anyone] from their hand."
Psalm 7:2
Or else he will tear me apart like a lion, ripping to pieces, with none [to] deliver.
Proverbs 30:22
under a slave when he becomes king, and a fool when he is satisfied [with] food;
Genesis 9:25
And he said, "Cursed [be] Canaan, a slave of slaves he shall be to his brothers."
Deuteronomy 28:43
The alien that [is] in your midst shall ascend over you, higher [and] higher, but you shall go down lower [and] lower.
Nehemiah 2:19
But Sanballat the Horonite, the Ammonite servant Tobiah, and Geshem the Arab heard it, and they mocked and despised us, saying, "What is this thing that you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?"
Job 5:4
His children are far from deliverance, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is no deliverer--
Job 10:7
because of your knowledge that I am not guilty, and there is no escaping from your hand?
Psalm 50:22
Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear [you] apart, and there [will be] none to deliver.
Isaiah 43:13
Indeed, from [this] day I [am] the one, and no one can deliver from my hand. I perform, and who can {cancel it}?"
Hosea 2:10
And now I will uncover her nakedness before the eyes of her lovers, and no one will rescue her from my hand.